Today I am at the 2008 Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium, Penn State. My twits will post tonight and you can get a sense of what went on. My brother presented a paper this morning and I am sure the podcast will go up later. About the Symposium Welcome […]
Higher Ed
So, what career would you like? I think that some of the salaries below are commensurate with the work load and responsibility. Presidential pay is again causing a ruckus with the hiring of Mark G. Yudof, the University of California%u2019s new president, who will earn $828,000 in a job that […]
Cornell Stanford 4:40pm ET Go Big Red! Sadly…Cornell’s men went down to the trees. BTW, I cannot possibly find simple scores on the ESPN site. The mobile version on my BlackBerry gets me there in two clicks, but on the regular website I never did find them.
Of his jurisdiction. And I don’t just mean because he has subpoenaed schools outside of NY (that can be justified). I don’t claim to be an expert in financial matters but I have looked into the credit card practices since my employer has more alumni with branded cards than any […]
Acceptance letters for the college went out and I am already receiving appeals. The reality is that because we only take 300 students out of nearly 2500 applications amazing kids weren’t accepted. Now is the challenge of telling them the truth, they are great students, but they just didn’t make […]
Although we are no longer there in body our thoughts remain with NOLA and Tulane. The success of the universities will play a major role in the recovery of the city. New Orleans Colleges See Surge in Applications Applications have jumped nearly 100 percent at Tulane University compared with this […]
As both an academic and an administrator (and someone brought in with tenure) this is disconcerting. President Loses Tenure at Delaware State U. – Chronicle.com Delaware State University’s president, Allen L. Sessoms, and five other university administrators have been stripped of tenure as part of a settlement with the university’s faculty […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education (this link is subscription only, this link will stay free for five days) reports on a study that appears to show that academic success is the greatest factor in keeping lower-income students enrolled. This study is from Serge Herzog, UNVR. For each one-letter grade increase […]
I noticed a trackback from a blog I had not come across before, “Notes from Off-Center” by Andrew Tatusko. Not only is his article Racism, or Leveling the Merit Field? and excellent explanation of why such programs are not racism (saving me a LOT of work and showing much more […]
This oped was written to BusinessWeek by our Provost Rodney Erickson and signed by all the Big 10 provosts. It is replying to the earlier article “The Dangerous Wealth of the Ivy League”. It is a very good piece (the letter, the other is good as well, but problematic, as […]