In the zone-out facing multiple deadlines
Let me preface the remarks below with a simple fact of working in a huge university: There are hundreds of colleagues who are better read than I am, hundreds who work longer hours, hundreds who are more organized, hundreds who are wiser, hundreds who are more clever, hundreds who have published more, hundreds who have […]
NCLB and where we sit
In my undergraduate social foundations class, I spend some time explaining the politics of accountability. For the last few years, a critical mass of students (either a majority or a vocal minority) have consistently opposed accountability, taking on the mantle of professionalism, and it’s my job to rattle their cages and make them see things […]
Wrong incentive structure for community colleges/technical training
George R. Boggs and Marlene B. Seltzer describe Washington State’s incentive structure designed to encourage community colleges to push completion: Washington’s community and technical colleges will receive extra money for students who earn their first 15 and first 30 college credits, earn their first 5 credits of college-level math, pass a pre-college writing or math […]
The Latin Declension Song
You always knew you wanted a Latin I song (hat tip).
Did Stanley Fish really have to bring the truth into it?
Ouch: The truth is that there are no perfectly straightforward senior administrative searches. They are all a bit cooked, and often they serve more as window dressing than as genuinely deliberative processes. The larger point he made in the column makes sense: institutional leaders are as important for reaching out as for directing what happens […]