December 28, 2020
Joe Deville, writing for the COPIM team on working with academic libraries: What this means for us as a project, however, is that our answer to the question ‘how can open access books be better integrated into libraries?’ has to perform a tricky balancing act. On the...
December 17, 2020
Lucy Barnes, Tom Mosterd, and Agata Morka, on the recently established Open Access Books Network (OABN): We have come a long way from what started as a post-conference conversation in a bar in Marseille back in the summer of 2019, where the idea of creating a network...
December 11, 2020
Timnit Gebru, in a VentureBeat interview: A lot of people have been talking about that. All of these research conferences are heavily funded by industry, so right now what is computer science research? It’s like you’ve got the military and you’ve got corporations....
December 9, 2020
Another Catholic shoe to drop: As part of a multi-year financial plan for the College’s long-term financial sustainability, the Saint Rose Board of Trustees has approved a plan to reduce academic expenses by $5.97 million, including the closure of 16 unique bachelor’s...
December 4, 2020
University of Vermont Dean of Arts and Sciences, quoted in Inside Higher Ed to justify the elimination of 12 "low-enrollment" majors: “This decision has been extremely difficult [...] It has been informed by data and guided by a strategy to focus on the...
December 1, 2020
Speaking of "program prioritization," this piece on rough college finances in today's Chronicle features University of Scranton president Edward Steinmetz: “If it’s a $12-million hit, that’s huge,” he says. “We’ve had negative variances in the past, but...
