28 avril 2017

By Matt Reed. Conference themes are usually a bit contrived, and most of the time, you couldn’t possibly pick out the theme of a conference from within it if you didn’t already know. More...

By Matt Reed. Yesterday’s post, a call for new approaches to leading colleges, lead to a round of questions that boiled down to “such as…?”. More...

By Matt Reed. Has cutting your way to greatness ever worked? I can’t think of a time that it has, yet it remains a common default mode. More...

By Matt Reed. Community colleges have lagged the rest of higher education in fundraising. In one sense, that’s counterintuitive: a donation goes a lot farther, and comes closer to students, at a community college than at an elite private college, but that doesn’t seem to drive donors. More...

By Matt Reed. Policies vs. labels.
As a trained political theorist, I’m inherently skeptical of anyone who loudly claims the mantle of “centrist.” It doesn’t mean what some people take it to mean. More...

By Matt Reed. The Accuplacer is a placement test often administered to students during the admission process. It has several components, each addressing a different skill: reading, writing, arithmetic, and algebra. More...

By Matt Reed. A new study suggests that “intellectual humility,” defined as the serious practice of the idea that you could be wrong, is one of the most important traits of people who make good decisions. More...

By Matt Reed. Tim Burke’s recent piece on academic bullying had a line that made me chuckle in rueful recognition. According to a faculty survey done at Swarthmore, most faculty agreed on two points:
1.  Faculty-to-faculty bullying is pervasive and often severe
2.  The administration absolutely should do nothing about it
In a nutshell, that’s the dilemma of administration. More...