September 24, 2019
Johann Neem, in an interview for Inside Higher Ed: I also don’t think vocational and liberal education can be done well in the same course of study. First, they often have very different ethical orientations, so if part of what constitutes a good college education is...
September 24, 2019
Liz Morrish, writing for the LSE Impact Blog on the UK Teaching Excellence Framework measures: These metrics are not simply benign and have serious implications for academics whose labour is being evaluated along new and unforeseen dimensions. For instance, they must...
September 19, 2019
Inside Higher Ed: President Robbyn Wacker notified faculty members last month that despite ongoing efforts to manage the university’s budget, “we have come to the conclusion that we need to retrench eight tenured and probationary faculty positions from three academic...
September 17, 2019
Martin Paul Eve on scholarly associations: But the truth of the matter is that Learned Societies are funded by academic library budgets. If they rely on a subscription model, they are also reliant on excluding people who cannot pay, for the claimed good of the...
September 16, 2019
Greta Anderson, writing for Inside Higher Ed: Last August, Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn pledged $100 million to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, promising to build a research campus by 2020 and a facility for the College of Engineering, where the company and UW...
