A day in the life of a summer course
Third class of the summer session this morning, first one where students were supposed to have finished readings. This is an undergraduate social-foundations class, and the readings for this week include Gary Becker on human capital, Sam Bowles on social reproduction, and either the start of Paul Tough’s Whatever It Takes or Joe Williams’s Cheating […]
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 […]