By Joshua Kim. The announcement of Google Classroom will, as far as I can tell, have no relevance to anything that we are doing in higher ed.
This is a non-higher ed story.
Google Classroom is not aimed at higher education. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. What percentage of your meetings is the word “flipped” mentioned?
We seem to have a history of coming up with the most ridiculously bad words to describe what we are doing in higher education. MOOC, blended, hybrid, and now flipped. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. I recently finished Cubed, Nick Saval’s wonderful history of the wonderful history of the office workplace. The book has caused me to give some thought to my own office history. What follows is a list of the offices that I have occupied over the length of my academic career. My hope is that you may join me in constructing and sharing a similar list. Read more...
By Barbara Fister. It’s big news: the New York Public Library has decided not to make the controversial renovation that had humans of New York and elsewhere riled up. The part that had me concerned was that the renovation was being sold as a rejuvenation of a research library by turning it into a combined circulating and research library which would be funded largely by selling two other libraries, the Mid-Manhattan library and SIBL (which not too long ago was a cutting-edge science and business library but, as so often happens to cutting edges had gotten a bit dull). Read more...
By Matt Reed. Well, yes. But there’s a knowledge problem, and consequently, an incentive problem. Pierce wrote a terrific piece in IHE about the difficulties that thoughtful presidents face with faculty skeptics who simply refuse to believe that any challenges their campuses face have anything to do with external forces. Read more...By Matt Reed. The news of SNHU’s College for America getting approval to offer bachelor’s degrees got me thinking. What would happen if community colleges were to take as an explicit goal competing with for-profits? We already do, in many ways, but it’s mostly incidental. We happen to go after some of the same populations, and offer some of the same programs. Read more...By Matt Reed. How long are bad grades good for?By Matt Reed. It’s the end of the semester, and you can see it in the exhausted, pinched expressions on campus. The trick to this time of year is not to sneak up on anybody. Or to make any sudden movements. Or to attempt irony in any way, shape, or form. Read more...By Matt Reed. I get a little twitchy when I read about class-based affirmative action in university admissions, though probably not for the reasons you might expect. The underlying premise of the debate around affirmative action in university admissions seems to be that seats on the lifeboat are limited; therefore, allocation of those seats is a matter of high import. Read more...
Rutgers University and Pasadena City College both now have confirmed commencement speakers -- following controversy about the actions of administrators in handling past invitations to speak. Rutgers was scrambling because Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of state, withdrew on Saturday amid growing student and faculty protests over her selection. Rutgers announced that Thomas H. Kean, a former New Jersey governor and former president of Drew University, would appear. Read more...
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