No such thing as a “failed search”
I used to hate “student evaluations” as the most ill-used expression in higher ed,* but I have a new pet peeve: “failed search,” as in claims that the “second major search for a dean [of Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism] is on the verge of failure.” Piffle and lizard snot.** There is no such thing […]
The NY Post is shocked, shocked to find that donations are going on in here!
The New York Post is playing to a double standard this week in counting up donations from UFT to state politicians. Not only is there no examination of donations from others (Hi, Mayor Bloomberg and allies!), but one of the UFT’s adversaries in mayoral-control politics is Democrats for Education Reform, which prides itself on getting […]
Cascade
My apologies to everyone to whom I owe work and to readers who would like extended blog entries on the future of higher education, today’s NAEP trends report, teacher demographics, and so forth: I’ve been squeezed from too many directions to have much coherent to say, apart from about 60 minutes this weekend where several […]
PCAST, mostly very good except for Rensselauer’s president
Today, the White House announced President Obama’s picks for the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), and with one exception, they look great to me. The exception is Shirley Ann Jackson, whose scientific reputation is fine but whose administration of Rensselaur Polytechnic Institute is rife with signs of problems, from the close […]
What are the costs of education at universities? A quibble
Sara Goldrick-Rab reports on Kevin Carey’s visit to the University of Wisconsin at Madison. One thing about his comments and the Delta Project on higher-ed costs makes me wonder about the failure to talk about messy data with college costs, or rather what Goldrick-Rab reports on his comments: Of course, Madison is a research university, […]