Charlie Crist, George LeMieux, and higher ed searches
Well, it looked like a foregone conclusion early on, and though the hiring authority promised a wide-ranging search for the best talent available, and he went through all the motions of a search, in the end it was the inside candidate who won out, just as a number of people predicted. Yep: Florida Governor Charlie […]
Greg Mankiw provides the laugh of the day
Economist Greg Mankiw provides the unintentional humor of the day: “Smart parents make more money and pass those good genes on to their offspring.” Smart parents years ago miraculously picked employers who survived the Great Recession without laying them off? Smart parents are dumb enough to spend money on expensive private schools and expensive private […]
John Yoo and academic freedom
On the Balkanization blog, Deborah Pearlstein copies a memo from Berkeley (Boalt Hall) Law School dean Christopher Edley regarding John Yoo, the tenured faculty member at Boalt who wrote the torture-justification memos for the Bush administration. In it, Edley makes clear his disdain for Yoo’s reasoning and then argues that those who would want Yoo […]
NEA’s comments: righteousness over responsibility to members?
I’m an NEA member, through my membership in the United Faculty of Florida. I’m a skeptic and critic of high-stakes accountability. Wrote a book and a few articles on the topic. And I am astounded at the NEA’s comments on the Race to the Top draft regulations. (Hat tip.) It is one thing to submit […]
H1N1-motivated (and very brief) reviews of CamStudio, Captivate, and Elluminate
Preparation is better than panic, or so they say. With questions about the expected wave of H1N1 infections this fall and winter, my administration is trying to gently prod faculty into thinking about what might happen if 30-40% of students in a class are infected and absent. (Well, I’d hope they’re absent if they’re infectious.) […]