Boundaries and presence
This morning, Inside Higher Ed reported on the resignation of Terrell Strayhorn from his faculty position at Ohio State University, after he was dismissed from a center director position. Strayhorn is well-known in higher-ed research, ((i.e., the research community that focuses on higher education)) and his administrative dismissal and then faculty resignation is a startling end […]
Bill Sanders, evangelizing expert
About a month ago, Kevin Carey wrote a eulogy for the late Bill Sanders in a New York Times’ Upshot column. Sanders was a statistician at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, someone who among other things had contributed to a mixed linear model procedure in the SAS statistical system ((PROC MIXED)). In the 1980s and early […]
Erwin V. Johanningmeier
I was sorry to hear earlier this spring that my former colleague Erv Johanningmeier had died. As the chair of a search committee in 1996, he was responsible for Barbara Shircliffe, Chris Ogren, and my coming to the University of South Florida. ((In a span of about five years, he directly or indirectly was responsible […]