23 mai 2017

Purdue’s Massive Blunder

By Liz Reisberg and Philip G. Altbach. Purdue University, an institution among America’s most respected research universities, has announced it is buying the for-profit Kaplan University. More...

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Global Protest of Scientists

By Nadine Zeeman and Liudvika Leisyte. It is too early to know whether the March for Science portends a collective resistance that will be sustained. More...

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Institutional Massification in African Universities

By Goolam Mohamedbhai. Over the two decades 1986-2006, student enrollment  increased by about four- to eight-fold at a limited number of universities resulting in "institutional massification," not national or regional massification. More...

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It's Not Too Late

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/large/public/law.jpgBy Tracy Mitrano. Opinion on the reasons for why President Trump fired FBI director James Comey run the gamut from the President’s fear over the investigation into Russia election influence through loyalty to Director Comey work performance. More...

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Cheers ...

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/large/public/law.jpgBy Tracy Mitrano. This week a colleague called me “Kleenex.” What she meant, jocularly, was that my name is so commonly associated with policy. “I would have preferred Xerox,” was my response, thinking back to law school when I learned about the dilution of trade mark names with these two examples. More...

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WannaCry

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/large/public/law.jpgBy Tracy Mitrano. Even though U.S. higher education in the main has not been hit hard by this cyber attack, let’s use our Lessig four factor analysis to think through this event. We have an unusual moment wherein we can take time to think through next steps without being totally distracted by operational need to get  services restored and functional for our colleges and universities. More...

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When the Internet is Angry

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/large/public/library_babel_fish_blog_header.jpgBy Barbara Fister. A new book by Zeynep Tufekci looks at ways networked protest is changing political movements worldwide. More...

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Info Wars

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/large/public/library_babel_fish_blog_header.jpgBy Barbara Fister. Information is power, the old saw goes, but withholding information is powerful, too. It’s kind of disturbing to see how information is hidden in weird political shell games. Remember when people rushed to save public environmental data sets fearing they would disappear. More...

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Teams: Lessons Learned

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/blog_landing/public/StratEDgy%20Graphic%20Resized.jpg?itok=kIrUoz70By Margaret Andrews. In my Making Teams Work course, which includes a demanding team project, one team wrote some very compelling Lessons Learned and they have allowed me to share them with you. More...

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Math Geek Mom: Perspective

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/blog_landing/public/mama_phd_blog_header.jpg?itok=C5xGPD1aBy Rosemarie Emanuele. The importance of women leaders.
One of my favorite topic in Geometry is that of “perspective.” I think that I like it so much because I first tasted this topic in high school, as a student of art. More...

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