Eating okra at the carnivore’s table
I’m in Tallahassee this evening, giving up a day and a half to convince legislators that a proposal for a diminished university Board of Governors would be a bad idea. This evening, I asked the hotel clerk for a restaurant. The one she directed me to had one car in the parking lot: not a […]
Embarrassments and education politics
Does anyone else think that Florida state senators waited to criticize the university system’s chancellor’s bonus until they wanted to decapitate the Board of Governors? I am no fan of huge bonuses for academic administrators, but surely the legislators knew of this for several years, as they’ve known about large bonuses for university presidents (which […]
Why I love reading blogs
Reason #421: when I have a headache and have to work on something tedious, Timothy Burke nails why I dislike Richard Dawkins. To be honest, it’s why Burke dislikes Dawkins, but as is often the case, he is more articulate than I would be making a similar argument. Incidentally, Burke would still be more articulate […]
Swamped
I wish I had time to write something pithy today, but I have a communications bungle in one direction, a crisis in another, several overdue items mating in this corner, and a Sword of Damocles overhead, and to boot I’m mixing all of this up with a swamp metaphor, so Margaret Soltan (aka University Diarist) […]
Setting the agenda or setting my teeth on edge?
I’m beginning to think that the “the candidates won’t talk about education!” complaints about the campaign are a bit whiny, or at least they’re striking my ear that way for a few reasons: The complaints are pretty vague. “Talk about education” could mean a variety of things, and I always wonder what questions the complainers […]