Ed. As the UW Presidential Search continues with little apparent faculty input, this survey of sitting presidents is very disturbing. The bottom line is that these CEOs seem to have no interest in academic quality, whether that means addressing the increasing issue of remedial classwork or the nee[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Administration’
March 6th, 2011 - 9:16 pm § in Schools & Colleges
COLLEGE PRESIDENTS: Solve budget crisis = online ed, drop tuition “discounts,” end tenure.
OSU Charged with Arbitrary, Political Action to End Students’ Careers
Ed. The lack of due process in the UW’s Aprikyan affair undermines the public trust a university need. That trust is not in the administration, it is a trust in the rigor of academic ethics. The following story, whatever the truth, is warning shot about what can happen when University [...]
March 1st, 2011 - 8:43 am § in Uncategorized
Conn. Governor Wants to Review Colleges’ Hiring of Administrators
February 25, 2011, 12:27 pm Gov. Dannel P. Malloy of Connecticut, a Democrat, says the state’s public colleges might be spending too much on administration. So he is proposing that the state’s budget staff review all non-faculty hiring at the University of Connecticut and Connecticut State Unive[...]
February 28th, 2011 - 8:37 am § in Schools & Colleges
Open Letter to American College Presidents
Monday, 28 February 2011 09:43 MEDIA RELEASE – CLICK HERE Dear President, Welcome to UniLeaks. We are a new online project dedicated to publishing information on public interest matters relating to the higher education industry. In essence, a version of Wikileaks aimed at Universities. While i[...]
January 26th, 2011 - 11:51 am § in Schools & Colleges
Rush Limbaugh Opposes the Academic 1%!
Limbaugh’s Class Warfare Vs. College Presidents By John K. Wilson Rush Limbaugh normally hates class warfare. So it was a bit unusual today when he came out and denounced millionaires. Of course, Limbaugh only hates one particular kind of millionaire: college presidents. Limbaugh declared, the bo[...]
January 23rd, 2011 - 8:20 am § in Schools & Colleges
Grayling is experimenting with an American-style modal to find a solution to the higher education debate.
The nineteenth century historian Jacob Burkhardt said that the Renaissance of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries comprised a ‘discovery of the world and of man’. This discovery of ‘man’ primarily meant investigating the ‘cult of the individual’, in which the human condition was[...]