Siva Vaidhyanathan has a good piece at Slate about the absurd firing of University of Virginia president Teresa Sullivan. Despite widespread support from the university community, Sullivan was canned last week for reasons that remain unclear, but seem to revolve around her not bringing in...
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Scott has already noted that one causal factor in the spiraling amount of student loan debt cataloged in the current NYT series on the subject has been the eagerness of.
Charlie Pierce for today's internet win with his celebration of the Morrill Act, signed by President Lincoln in 1862. The Morrill Act effectively created a national system of public higher.
Rutgers, setting an example for universities everywhere: Rutgers University forgave $100,000 of the football coach’s interest-free home loan last year. The women’s basketball coach got monthly golf and car allowances. Both collected bonuses without winning a championship. Meanwhile, the history department took away professors’ desk...
I usually avoid talking about specific tenure denial cases because they are usually more complicated than stories about them are made out to be. And you have to wonder about.
There's a debate among the legions of non-tenure track English and language faculty on whether to occupy the MLA this December in protest of their organization's disinterest in addressing the.
I have an active a research agenda as any untenured academic, but I also love teaching. So do most academics that I know. Part of loving teaching is placing value on your course. If you don't care enough to take attendance, at least in courses...
Good lord: The story of how the for-profit colleges survived the threat of a major federal crackdown offers a case study in Washington power brokering. Rattled by the administration’s tough.
I should preface this post by saying that I rarely complement higher education administrators. I am naturally suspicious of people in power anyway and I always question the motives of.
Sarah Jaffe has been all over the issue of debt lately, chronicling who is profiting from the massive debt young people have to take on in order to graduate from college and how people are fighting back. Great stuff. See here and here. This debt...
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.
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.