On a change at USF Polytechnic
President X may need to leave for the college-community relationship to be what her or his lip service has claimed is the ideal… because the reality of that has to exist on campus, not just in the head of President X. What I wrote a short while ago in Dead administration walking and the higher […]
Power and authority in oral history, public history, quantitative social history, and now digital history, …
Thus far, submitting a chapter for Writing History of the Digital Age has been one of the more engaging and enjoyable bits of writing and scholarly interaction I’ve had in almost a quarter century in my field. The public discussion (including comments by the peer reviewers for the press) has been productive from my perspective as an […]
Does Sherman Dorn hold a double standard on interview studies?
Rick Hess writes in response to my last entry commenting on a piece by Ben Wildavsky that I “snarked that the research was qualitative and that Ben didn’t offer up a quantitative analysis. Now, I thought it interesting that education scholars who often argue the merits of methodological diversity (an argument I heartily endorse, so long as […]
Why Wildavsky’s bone-headed error?
A few days ago, I was puzzling over a statement in the executive summary of an American Enterprise Institute-sponsored paper by Ben Wildavsky released (and publicized) this week: … faculty [at for-profits] tends to look quite different from those at many traditional not-for-profit institutions. First and foremost, they are instructors rather than researchers. (p. 2) Anyone who […]
Quiz of the day: Is Wildavsky’s claim about faculty correct?
In the executive summary of an American Enterprise Institute-sponsored paper by Ben Wildavsky released yesterday, I found the following statement: … faculty [at for-profits] tends to look quite different from those at many traditional not-for-profit institutions. First and foremost, they are instructors rather than researchers. (p. 2) Note the subtitle of the 16-page paper: “An […]