David Brewster How Univeristy Prezidents Get Hired by Search Firms This eye-opening story on search firms and all they overlook in placing academic jobs is helpful in explaining why UW has had very mixed success with its previous three presidents, and by implication why it was smart in going wit[...]
Archive for November 2nd, 2015
David Brewster: UW President Richard McCormick’s affair with a staff member was not reported to Rutgers
Commentary by SMS: Debating People of Color
How we use words like “diversity” and “people of color.” The argument for categorizing people as “people of color” is facile, an argument based on a poltical game of numbers. I suppose there is a political benefit of lumping the issues of immigrants from L[...]