Open-source textbooks
This morning, Inside Higher Ed has a good article on faculty who write open-source texts. In the end, it’ll be faculty decisions that determine whether this is a viable alternative to expensive texts.
In memoriam
It’s been one year after the shootings at Virginia Tech. No great thoughts here, just thoughts.
The difference between being wrong and being fired
Aaron Barlow has it on the nose when he discusses Academic Freedom and Yoo. Fundamentally, once UC Berkeley’s law school hired John Yoo as a tenured faculty member, it owed him due process in any disciplinary proceeding, both substantive and procedural due process. The fact that his actions as a government lawyer are obnoxious and […]
Fordham v. Fordham
Congrats to Fordham for writing more entries in the first day of its new blog Flypaper than I’ve written in about 7 years… On the other hand, it looks like the blog that the Fordham Fellows started last year has been taken over by others, especially when an entry is named Argan Oil, a Nutritional […]
Funding in higher ed
Kevin Carey’s column on unequal funding of higher education makes the obvious but important point that states’ public higher education systems are often skewed in favor of spending more in institutions with better-prepared students. Carey uses per-student (FTE) instructional expenses calculated using the Governmental Accounting Standards Board numbers (i.e., numbers that institutions reported using GASB […]