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Iran’s university students and faculty under threat
According to a Chronicle of Higher Education report late today, as well as Twitter reports and images/videos from bloggers who have been able to post, Iran’s universities are under attack, either physically (with property destroyed and some reports of student deaths) or political pressures. If the clerical authorities gave orders for the Revolutionary Guard or […]
“Manufactured Controversy” the paper
Last week, Free Exchange on Campus published the latest thing other than student work to go on my to-read list: Manufactured Controversy, on the lessons to be learned from the attempt to politicize universities by David Horowitz and his allies. No, I haven’t read it yet. But that’s good news: this is a chance for […]
Changing higher ed, from Mr. Obvious Man
Craig Smith tagged me in an AFT FACE entry asking about the future of/a better vision for higher education, and given the way that Mark Taylor’s schizophrenic vision of higher ed prompted not only a flurry of comments but thoughtful comments by Dr. Crazy, Dean Dad, Marc Bousquet, Timothy Burke, H. Saussy, and Michael Berube, […]
“My university administration has asked me not to speak to the press”
Fellow education policy blogger Sara Goldrick-Rab wrote a painful entry earlier this week about how her administration treats her speaking up on a policy issue in her area of expertise (in this case, her opposition to UW-Madison’s tuition hike), and I’m sorry I haven’t followed up before now, because if she is reporting correctly (see […]
PCAST, mostly very good except for Rensselauer’s president
Today, the White House announced President Obama’s picks for the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), and with one exception, they look great to me. The exception is Shirley Ann Jackson, whose scientific reputation is fine but whose administration of Rensselaur Polytechnic Institute is rife with signs of problems, from the close […]