By Liz Reisberg. Colombia has been on the path toward developing a sophisticated, diversified and equitable system of higher education for many years. This is promising but there are many shortcomings in policy and practice. Read more...
Getting Past "It's the Provost's Fault."
By John Warner. As true as "it's the provost's fault" may be, it can't be a stopping point for academic laborers. Read more...
The Battle of LIU-Brooklyn: Whose University Is It Anyway?
By John Warner. I don’t really know what happens to my semester syllabus when I email it to my department. I assume it’s collected with the other syllabi somewhere. Maybe someone reviews it to make sure I’m not up to anything too lunatic. Read more...
Faculty Lockout
By University of Venus. At The Nation: Starting September 7, the first day of the fall semester at Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus, classes will be taught entirely by non-faculty members—not because the faculty are on strike, but because on the Friday before Labor Day the administration officially locked out all 400 members of the Long Island University Faculty Federation (LIUFF), which represents full-time and adjunct faculty. More...
9/11 Disunity at Occidental
By Scott Jaschik. College Republicans plant 2,997 flags on campus. Many are removed and trashed. Another student group questions the memorial and posts fliers to honor the Iraqis killed after U.S. invasion. Read more...
Poor Endowment Year for Large Public Universities
By Scott Jaschik. Early results from the Wilshire Trust Universe Comparison Service suggest that the past fiscal year was a rough one for large public university endowments, Bloomberg reported. Read more...




