By Joshua Kim. First, the column does a good job of recognizing alt-ac professionals in teaching, learning, and research-related roles, and I think it is also worth pointing out that we have alt-ac colleagues in other types of roles as well. Read more...
By John Warner. There are thousands of podcasts. Some are based in academia. We thought it was a good idea to add to the pile. You could too.
Various Breads and Butters began with the time-honored two-guys-shooting-the-shit model. Read more...
By Julie R. Enszer. It began with a simple query from my wife, “What happened to all of your keys?” While she was traveling for work, I had returned the three keys to the university that had filled the real estate of my keychain. More...
By Janine Utell. For some reason this year, the annual tidal wave of back-to-school news stories has bothered me more than usual. The story about the Duke students refusing to read Fun Home. The story about the frat guys who thought the best way to welcome newcomers to their campus was to drape their house with sexually inappropriate and vaguely threatening messages scrawled on bedsheets. More...
By Anonymous. The World View is pleased to publish a conversation between Daniel Kontowski and Philip G. Altbach in four parts. These conversations were initiated by Daniel for a Polish audience and will be published in Gazeta Wyborcza in Polish in a longer version. The dialog considers international strategy from a Polish perspective. Read more...
By Philip G. Altbach. Without question, the very large majority of academic institutions, students, and professors are honest and focused on education and research in difficult times. But one might be tempted to think that higher education is rife with corruption of all kinds. Read more...
By Herman Berliner. The article on increasing tuition discounting (Discounting Grows Again) in the Tuesday edition of Inside Higher Ed was no surprise whatsoever. As noted in the article, the average first year discount rate increased in 2014 from 46.4% to 48% and though the increase is modest, the yearly increases in the discount rate continue unabated. Read more...
A former men's and women's cross country coach at Hunter College has filed an age discrimination complaint against the college, alleging that he was “relegated to being an office assistant” because the college thought he was too old to continue as coach. Edwin Zarowin, who is 88, told The New York Times that Hunter officials asked him to step down as coach and to become an “athletic archivist.” Read more...
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday that it has reached an agreement with the University of Nebraska at Kearney that will assure the right of students with psychological difficulties to have support dogs in campus housing. Read more...
On the campaign trail Hillary Clinton has been critical of for-profit colleges and has called for tougher regulation of the sector. Read more...
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