Free Public Commons principles in university-commercial collaboration
Check out the Open Collaboration Principles developed by a group of universities and companies that can guide future collaboration. While the New York Times article gushes about this, it’s not a fabulous breakthrough that says that universities and companies won’t attempt to squeeze every penny from research, but it is a model for institutions and […]
Write a paper and get an FBI visit?
A University of Massachusetts student was interviewd by the FBI for suspicious behavior after he requested a copy of Mao’s Little Red Book through Interlibrary Loan for a paper he was finishing. Not only is this an interference in legitimate college activities, it’s an utter waste of FBI time. Update: As Ralph Luker notes, the […]
Harts and courses
There’s a brouhaha some folks like Inside Higher Ed and Erin O’Connor (in her role as ACTA blogger) are brewing from the recent release of the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy, about the supposedly declining literacy of college graduates. I haven’t explored the details, but I know from past panel assessments that public releases […]
Social justice, redux
Now that NCATE has responded to criticisms of its demand that institutions assess dispositions of future teachers—more specifically, the allegation (with some considerable documentation) that several of its accredited institutions have been using the dispositions as an excuse for ideological screening—by explaining that dispositions are to be assessed through observable behavior, KC Johnson asks, Will […]
Bloghacking
By Sherman Dorn on December 14, 2005
Ugh. Someone has hacked into Dr. History‘s blog, turning it into a one-entry porn reference. (Proof that this is not Dr. H’s work is the Google Blogsearch’s list of Dr. H’s posts.) I don’t know her in real life, but it’s highly disturbing that someone would have the maliciousness of screwing up an academic blog. […]
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