28 juillet 2018
28 juillet 2018
'Implicated'
By Matt Reed. Longtime readers know that I’m a fan of C.K. Gunsalus. Her “College Administrator’s Survival Guide” is one of the most useful and realistic I’ve ever read on the subject. So it should come as no surprise that her latest piece in IHE, along with Nicholas Burbules and Robert Easter, struck a chord. It’s about dysfunctional academic departments. More...
28 juillet 2018
Janus, Faced
By Matt Reed. A friend in grad school once commented that she and I followed the Supreme Court the same way that normal people follow baseball. So yes, I’ve been mulling over the Janus v AFSCME case for months. Longer, in fact, if you count the version that didn’t get decided when Scalia died. More...
28 juillet 2018
Shared Governance and Preordained Outcomes
By Matt Reed. The state just passed a law capping the number of credits for an associate degree at 60, down from 66, effective in Fall of 2019. (It includes some very limited exceptions for programs with external accreditations, like certain allied health programs, but that’s all.) The idea, I assume, is to reduce the cost for students and make it likelier that students will complete degrees in a timely way. Which is great, as far as it goes. More...
28 juillet 2018
Things That Seem Obvious
By Matt Reed. Last week was the annual family summer vacation, so I didn’t pay as much attention to the academic interwebs as I usually do. But even in the midst of painfully rediscovering why folks of Scandinavian heritage need lead-apron-strength sunscreen, I couldn’t resist @Mantia’s tweet asking people to name something that’s obvious to people in your industry or field, but mostly unknown outside it. More...
28 juillet 2018
The Four-Body Problem
By Matt Reed. Academic interwebs are full of articles about the “two-body problem.” (My own most recent contribution to the genre is here.) The two-body problem refers to the dilemma that couples face when opportunities don’t come in pairs. When one member of the couple gets a good offer in a desirable location and the other doesn’t, they have an awful choice to make. More...
28 juillet 2018
Thin Budgets in 30 Days
28 juillet 2018
The Hybrid Conundrum
By Matt Reed. For a while, it did. It combined a Netflix-like ability to order DVD’s online with the option of in-store pickup and return. It was advertised as the best of both worlds, and in a sense, it may have been. But in trying to do two things, it didn’t do either terribly well. Now Netflix is a powerhouse, and Blockbuster an artifact. More...
28 juillet 2018
'Noteworthy'
By Matt Reed. This isn’t intended as a pure defense of AP exams, or of standardized tests generally. That said, I was struck at this line in the IHE story about several elite private schools in the DC area dropping AP exams and courses: “Taking AP courses has become so popular that doing so is no longer “noteworthy.”” More...
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