By Andrys Onsman. In her excellent book on education hubs Jane Knight offers a lot of interesting points and analyses. There are a number of cities and regions that are actively promoting themselves as education hubs, often investing money, real estate and personnel to attract HE providers with a recognised brand — Singapore, Hong Kong, Qatar, Seoul, UAE, Botswana, Panama City, Monterey and new entrants such as Sri Lanka, Mauritius and Bahrain. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. Two New York Times articles about the F.C.C. caught my attention this week. In the first, Why the U.S. Has Fallen Behind in Internet Speed and Affordability, explores concomitant legal and market factors that have had a deleterious result for U.S. consumers. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. The role an academic administrative assistant is changing. This work is morphing from a support role to a creative collaborative profession. The title of “administrative” and “assistant” doubly fails to capture the work that these professionals do. “Administrative” is too narrow a term for colleagues who daily juggle project management, resource planning, communications, scheduling, finances, and logistics. “Assistant” is not well specified, as all of our work is collaborative. Read more...By Joshua Kim. Are you as depressed as I am about the results of the 2014 IHE Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology? Read more...
By Svetlana Shkolyar. I felt more nervous delivering a 3-minute science communication competition speech to an audience of Trekkies and Batmen (I was at ComiCon, if you haven’t guessed) than I did giving a real conference talk to a group of instrumentation experts from all over the world. Read more...By Katie Shives. In life, failure is inevitable; in graduate school, it is guaranteed. The very nature of a graduate degree puts you into contact with failure on a regular basis, especially if you work in the lab attempting to do or show something that has never been seen before. Read more...
By Matt Reed. Policy is meant to address problems as they’re understood. When the problems aren’t fully understood, the policy intervention can misfire pretty badly. Read more...
By Matt Reed. That isn’t necessarily as easy as it sounds, especially in the early stages. Assuming that some folks have been burned before, you’ll have to overcome some initial skepticism. You’ll need to be willing to focus the venue on solvable issues, and to set a goal of providing solutions, rather than blame. That may involve disappointing some of the more ardent True Believers. But if you’re able to set a constructive tone, you’ll quickly gain credibility. Read more...
By Matt Reed. I’ve written before about my distrust of the “undermatching” thesis. (Quick review: “undermatching” refers to talented, low-income students choosing colleges that are easier to get into than they could have.) Defining “undermatching” as a significant problem writes the academic prestige hierarchy into nature, ratifies resource inequality among institutions in the name of “meritocracy,” writes off the institutions that most people attend as irredeemable, and assumes an independent effect of selectivity that empirical social science suggests doesn’t exist. It assumes that the solution to mass drowning is a few life preservers. Read more...
By Matt Reed. I was happy to see yesterday’s report on the latest from the Center for American Progress, calling for a new round of public investment in higher education. I was particularly taken with the idea of focusing the largest increases on community colleges, which have absorbed the largest proportional cuts over the last decade and a half. Read more...
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