Ward Churchill fallout
KC Johnson’s post on the Ward Churchill imbroglio is showing far more sense than other outraged outlets I vaguely recall at this point. (Hey, my day job takes precedence over blogging, right?) I’m quite worried by the use of “security threat” as a reason for Hamilton College to cancel a campus speech, since that’s allowing […]
The shameful voting record of academics
…if we trust the methods in one study of academe’s party registrations, the greatest threat to the patriotism of universities is in the apathy of the faculty, … In the marketing and accounting departments at these two universities, for example, more than two-thirds of the faculty were either not found or didn’t have major-party affiliations (19 just not found)… But the Music Department at Stanford shouldn’t be cut any slack, either, as only 4 of 13 had major-party registrations. How awful!
We’re Number 200-something!
The University of South Florida now ranks in the 200s in Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Institute of Higher Education Top 500 World University “study” (thanks to Frog in a Well for the link). The method (incorrectly termed “methodology,” but that’s a different rant) is better on some levels than the North American rankings based substantially […]
Bleargh
By Sherman Dorn on February 3, 2005
Head colds are nasty enough in life, they shouldn’t make me restless and unproductive, but they tend to. I hope this is one of the few bad head colds (and I’m quite sure it’s one of the few bad ones in a year) that does not keep me up until 2:30 or 3 late in […]
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