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11 juin 2019

Purges

By Matt Reed. Replacing senior team members.
Admittedly coming from a different context, I was fascinated by the article in IHE on Thursday about new presidents starting with purges of senior staff. More...

11 juin 2019

Inheritances

By Matt Reed. The Girl is wrapping up her freshman year of high school this month. She’s a “band kid,” happily playing trumpet in the marching and concert bands even though her first musical love is the piano. She was able to play piano in the pit orchestra for the high school production of “Hello Dolly,” but otherwise, school playing means the trumpet. More...

11 juin 2019

The DeVry Reunion Picnic

By Matt Reed. Canary in the coal mine?
For the past few years, some former employees of the North Brunswick (NJ) campus of DeVry have organized a reunion picnic at a local park each June. More...

11 juin 2019

Comparison Ads

By Matt Reed. I had a conversation on Monday with someone on campus about reaching out to some of the populations that for-profit schools tend to target. I made the obligatory reference to Lower Ed, then noted how much lower our tuition is -- even for online courses -- than the major for-profits with whom we compete. More...

11 juin 2019

Entry Level Pay

By Matt Reed. Been thinking about salary lately - and how (particularly underfunded) institutions can raise the bar for entry level pay. Without new $, seems like only choice is not filling vacancies and apportioning that money...which just leads to overwhelmed staff. More...

11 juin 2019

Agreement From an Unlikely Source

By Matt Reed. Working from a basically libertarian perspective, the book tackles the question of college tuition increases.  Given the source, I would have expected the usual villains in the libertarian narrative: “rent-seeking” liberal academics who use their sinecures isolated from the market to feather their own nests, or some variation on the theme. More...

11 juin 2019

The Start of a Necessary Conversation

By Matt Reed. And every year I nudge them about the same topic. “What about ESL?” Whether I had anything to do with it or not, I’m happy to report that they’ve taken up the topic with a new report that I hope is the first of many. More...

11 juin 2019

Who Should Control Faculty Lines?

By Matt Reed. John Warner published a think piece in IHE this week in which he argued that part of the reason that most academic management is terrible is that the structures of academia are set up to defeat them. As part of a potential alternative, he suggested no longer allocating full-time faculty positions centrally, but having each department manage its own salary budgets. More...

11 juin 2019

The Boy Turns 18

By Matt Reed. The Boy got his first sample ballot in the mail last week. It’s for an uncontested primary, but a ballot is a ballot. More...

11 juin 2019

Northeast Regional OER Summit, Day Two

By Matt Reed. The first day of the OER Summit was a keynote and a long series of short presentations. The second day was a pair of longer working sessions. More...

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