Saturday, October 10, 2015

Academic Freedom's just another word for nothing to fight about

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I've been reading slowly because I spent much of the week on other tasks.  Hofstadter makes a compelling case that the Reformation and C...
Tuesday, October 6, 2015

The competition to be less competitive

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This article on admissions highlights an effort to select students who aren't so focused on competing to be the best and get ahead.  On...
Sunday, October 4, 2015

Intellectual Freedom in the 1200's

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I'm only 25 pages in, but three quick thoughts: First, Hofstadter rightly distinguished between policing ideas via formal sanctions a...
Saturday, October 3, 2015

Bored

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Between having to brush up on old things and learn new things for teaching, digging through policy documents for committee work, and writing...
Thursday, October 1, 2015

Six Sigma Just In Time Buzzword Utilization For Strategic Synergizing

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Academe has a nice little piece on buzzwords in the professions, and the utter disconnect between the buzzwords and actually, you know, doi...
Saturday, September 26, 2015

The inclusiveness of the 1700's

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The next section of Hofstadter's documentary history of American higher education deals with the movement toward non-denominational inst...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

“Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.”

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I've been arguing with some people over whether it's worth spending effort on revising a mission statement.  I maintain that most or...
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