Great to know that the hilarity of blackface remains popular at some of our nation’s finer sororities and fraternities! And I thought we lived in a post-racial society! In all seriousness, this brings up a couple of more substantial points. First, it’s not like kids haven’t seen blackface on Saturday Night Live before. At least […]
Tag: higher education
Allow me to join Paul and Scott in making this a day dedicated to higher education here at LGM. Rick Scott opens the logical next front in the conservative war on the liberal arts: Scott said Monday t
This Bill Keller piece at the Times discusses Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun’s plan to eliminate the traditional university through technology, offering a future of higher education for at a
We don’t often think of professors as the most proletarianized of workforces; professors don’t usually think of themselves this way. But professors have been on the defensive against college and university administration for years and it is getting worse and the anti-union fanatics grow stronger. The administration at Bowling Green State University in Ohio went […]
Professors and students at Southwestern University in Texas, where I taught for 3 years, have developed an interesting study that was recently presented at the American Sociological Association and co
I don’t know enough about the subject, so I guess I’ll just ask. Is this to be taken seriously? Last week’s announcement of new rules to bear down on career colleges like the Unive
Annie Lowery reports that the market may finally be responding to the overproduction of law degrees. Obviously, there’s nothing unusual about the overproduction of a graduate degree; law school is just a little unusual because it still holds a certain reprutation for practicality that exceeds reality. I was interested that when my sister decided to […]
The United Kingdom is clearly running out of things to privatize. Thus far, in a few short months, the following has been passed or is under serious consideration: The university system has been effec