Quick notes on administration
Three writings on transitions to administration and faculty-administration relations: Serviceable by Gary Olson Sensible by DeanDad Very good (essential) by Tenured Radical One of my concerns about Olson’s piece is that it assumes that the upwardly-and-horizontally-mobile administrator is the norm (though maybe we should call this “diagonal mobility”). And while it is absolutely true that […]
I know that guy! (Delta higher-ed cost project)
I am pleased as punch that Nate Johnson’s new Delta Cost Project report is being publicized nationally. I first met Nate about a decade ago when he was working deep in the bowels of the Ralph Turlington Education Building in Tallahassee, before he was plucked by the former state university system chancellor to be his […]
Changing higher ed, from Mr. Obvious Man
Craig Smith tagged me in an AFT FACE entry asking about the future of/a better vision for higher education, and given the way that Mark Taylor’s schizophrenic vision of higher ed prompted not only a flurry of comments but thoughtful comments by Dr. Crazy, Dean Dad, Marc Bousquet, Timothy Burke, H. Saussy, and Michael Berube, […]
Should artists know something about money?
It’s cringing time for this union activist: Teaching is an art, not a business wrote Hans, commenting this evening on a story about a judicial mandate prohibiting a UTLA one-day strike this Friday. That statement is irrelevant in the specific context (teacher layoffs), is a false dichotomy, and is wrong-headed in other ways. Let’s start […]
Elsevier and qui tam lawsuits?
Is there anyone else horrified by the Elsevier journal scam waiting not just for academic righteousness but legal action in the U.S. based on the False Claims Act? If federal money was entangled at all in any of the journal nonsense, statements made by any of the fraudulent Elsevier journals could conceivably implicate the publisher […]