Teresa Sullivan has been reinstated as the president of the University of Virginia. This is an unquestionable victory for those of us interested in truly public higher education that is something more than a training ground for American corporate capitalism. However, as I stated previously,...
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Who are these people that ousted Teresa Sullivan? The Post has a nice graphic. Every single member is a businessperson. Including Pat Robertson's son. Not a single seat is reserved.
Daniel Willingham, Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, on the ouster of the school's president and the behavior of the plutocrats behind the plan. A few tidbits, but.
Updating yesterday's post that used the firing of Teresa Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia, as a jumping off point for thinking about why we think rich people know how to do everything, the Post gets to the bottom of why Sullivan was canned....
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.
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 education through the land-grant colleges. As only Charlie can put it: What both of these...
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..
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 massive employment problems for PhDs. They argue that the MLA holds real power over institutions...
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.
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.