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28 juillet 2014

Lithuania, Part 2: Best Get Here Quick

By Oronte. Here in the Old Town of Vilnius, Lithuania, it’s just about heaven, at times: Six a.m., as the woman in the orange vest sweeps trash with a broom and a little dustpan from the length of cobblestoned Pilies Street, and not another soul out. A couple of hours later, when Lithuanians walk briskly downhill toward the offices and businesses near the Cathedral and up Gedimino Street; the women are often six-feet tall with high-fashion beauty and stride along, in sundresses and sheer, multilayered things that look cool and stylish, with Audrey Hepburn insouciance. Read more...
28 juillet 2014

On the Chekhov Trail in Moscow

By Oronte. When did I come to be so at home in my mind with a writer who lived halfway around the globe, wrote in a language I don’t read, and who died more than a century ago? Like many of my students, I didn’t get there automatically. As Virginia Woolf says. Read more...
28 juillet 2014

The Effects of Travel

By Oronte. Many writers I know have a strain of paranoia that multiplies virulently as they near the end of a project. Several have expressed it to me exactly as I have felt it myself: I’m afraid I’m going to die before I get this finished, and someone will find the early draft on my laptop and say, Poor guy, he wanted to be a writer, but, see? he was as deluded about his talent as everyone said all along. Read more...

28 juillet 2014

Audit Faults Federal Oversight of Student Debt Collectors

HomeThe U.S. Department of Education has not properly overseen the companies it hires to collect defaulted federal student loan debt, according to an audit released Monday by the agency’s inspector general. Read more...
28 juillet 2014

Semester at Sea Entered into Deal with Creditors to Sell Ship

HomeThe nonprofit institute that manages the well-known Semester at Sea study abroad program has signed a “standstill agreement” with a German bank to prevent action by its creditors after it missed payments on an $83.5 million loan for its cruise ship, the Daily Progress of Charlottesville, Va., reported. Read more...
28 juillet 2014

Congressional Panel Restores Humanities Funding

HomeThe U.S. House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday reversed a Republican proposal to cut funding to the National Endowment for the Humanities by more than 5 percent in the coming fiscal year. The full committee approved an amendment to the Interior and Environment Appropriations bill, which sets the NEH budget, to fund the federal humanities agency at the same level as the current year. Read more...
28 juillet 2014

Adjuncts Urge Labor Dept. Inquiry Into Working Conditions

HomeMore than 500 adjunct professors and their advocates have signed a petition calling for the U.S. Department of Labor to investigate their working conditions. The petition's authors, all current or former adjuncts at various colleges and universities, allege that they are being paid for only part of the work they do, and that that amounts to wage theft. Read more...
28 juillet 2014

ACE Studies on Faculty Roles and Business Models

HomeThe American Council on Education on Wednesday released two reports from its Presidential Innovation Lab. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded lab asks more than a dozen chief executives to think about how technological, pedagogical, organizational and structural innovations can close the student achievement gap. Read more...
28 juillet 2014

Report Documents the State of Higher Ed Facilities

HomePublic universities have increased the amount of institutional funds they spend on facilities by 50 percent per square foot since 2007, as they strive not to fall too far behind on needed repairs and renovations despite declining state capital support, a new report shows. Read more...
28 juillet 2014

Senate Panel Boosts Pentagon Research, Curbs Funding to For-Profits

HomeThe Senate Appropriations Committee last week passed a bill to fund the Defense Department that would increase the Pentagon's basic research budget and also place new restrictions on the flow of federal dollars to for-profit colleges. The $549.3 billion funding measure, which lawmakers on the panel approved last Thursday, includes a 5 percent increase in funding for Department of Defense basic research. Read more...
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