By Matt Reed. This should be a much bigger story.
IHE ran a story by Ry Rivard that should have set sociologists and economists running wild. It’s about several non-profit colleges, including one community college, that have made policy changes affecting students at the behest of bondholders. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. The modern campus contains many more non-faculty educators than at anytime in the past. These are staff members who work directly on mission related, teaching and research, activities. Alt-academics will often partner with faculty on teaching and research tasks, tasks that were previously done by faculty alone. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. One question I often hear from my alt-ac colleagues is, “should I go for my Ph.D.”? The desire for alt-acs to get the terminal degree seems to have less to do with acquiring a new set of skills, as skills can be picked up in a range of less onerous and time consuming educational environments. Rather, a PhD for an alt-academic is a signifier. It is the price of admission to full colleague status with the faculty. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. The thing to remember about us alt-acs is that we are academics with a different incentive profile than our faculty colleagues. Our career progression and promotion paths are different. Work that might be a detriment for tenure track faculty are a benefit for us alt-acs. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. I’d like to make a modest proposal. We should stop scheduling meetings with zero time to go from one meeting to the next.
Does this describe your life? You have a meeting scheduled from 9:00am to 10:00am. And then another meeting from 10:00am to 10:30am. You have left yourself exactly zero minutes to get from the first meeting to the second. Read more...
By G. Rendell. A recent item in Scientific American is titled, "Games Help Save Energy". But read it all the way through (a daunting 993 words), and you'll learn that there's less to this headline than meets the eye. Read more...By G. Rendell. It's cold season here in Backboro. It;s cold, even for February. And it's stayed cold pretty much all month. And so people have colds (go figure!).
By Jane Robbins. I have come out of my hiatus from this Sounding Board blog to respond to an anonymous question I received (and apologizes for how long it has taken). The questions is:
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted to regulate the Internet as a public utility, a major win for the "net neutrality" advocates -- including higher education groups -- that lobbied the agency to ban paid traffic prioritization on the Internet. Read more...
The House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved legislation to expand the tax benefits of 529 college-savings accounts, less than a month after the Obama administration's failed bid to raise taxes on such accounts. Read more...
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