5 décembre 2016
5 décembre 2016
Friday Fragments - December 1, 2016
By Matt Reed. I’m glad to see the ASAP project getting some traction outside of New York CIty.
In its purest form, ASAP is an attempt to make community college students fit the mold of full time students at traditional campuses. More...
5 décembre 2016
American Cloaca: A Memoir: Intermission
By Oronte. A cloaca's not all bad. It might smell that way sometimes though.
American Cloaca is meant to be a lightly traced memoir of my own education, which I see as lifelong process, pursuit, and purpose. Read more...
5 décembre 2016
American Cloaca: A Memoir: 5a
By Oronte. It was a wonderful childhood, while it lasted. I had the full attention of my mother, a sister, aunts, uncles, cousins, and great good friends. There was the Devonian beauty of the Ozark Plateau and two big rivers. My battered tomcat climbed the mast of the maple in the backyard with me. Read more...
5 décembre 2016
People Are Infrastructure, Part I: Outsourcing
By Kenneth C. Green. In higher education as elsewhere, we often limit the public discussion about infrastructure to the things we buy (technology), build (offices, labs, and libraries) or need to update (plumbing, power, and networks). Yet our people are a critical, if often overlooked, part of the essential infrastructure in higher education. Read more...5 décembre 2016
Hidden Money Revelations
By Tracy Mitrano. Of many interesting articles this week the one that caught my attention the most was about how to hide 400 million dollars. Written almost as if it were a mystery story, it tracks how an estranged husband sought to salt money away in international banks such that his wife would have no access in a divorce. Read more...
5 décembre 2016
Outsourcing Is Moving Up the IT Stack
By Tracy Mitrano. If you haven’t heard of infrastructure outsourcing in addition to email and storage, you must have missed this article about the 80 or so IT staff at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center. Outsourcing up the IT stack is already occurring with regularity in corporate environments. Read more...
4 décembre 2016
University Rankings in Perspective
By Qiang Zha. University rankings have proliferated at all levels, global, regional and national. Various rankings consider various combinations of measures of research excellence, specialization expertise, student admissions and options, award numbers, internationalization, graduate employment, industrial linkage, funding and endowment, historical reputation and other criteria. Among these criteria, research often stands out. Read more...
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