Posted in Academia, Education, tagged tuition on May 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Inside Higher Education publishes figures on expenditures in higher education, confirming what those of us on the inside have known for a long time: the far-above-inflation increases in tuition over the past twenty years have not gone to faculty or anything else involving instruction.
Median Spending Per Full-time Enrolled Student, 2005, by Sector
Sector
Direct Instructional Costs
Other Educational [...]
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Posted in Academia, Education on April 29, 2008 | No Comments »
when it sounds as if it should be the other way around. “Worst professor ever”—well confirmed. What on earth is going on at Dartmouth? Consider her qualifications for a position at Dartmouth Medical School:
After obtaining a BA from Dartmouth College, I have an MS in Genetics from UC Davis and a PhD [...]
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Posted in Academia on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
How can one make those dull academic colloquies fun? Brian Hollar has a suggestion.
I just wish he had come up with this at the beginning of the semester; I’ve had to go to an average of two a week.
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Posted in Academia, tagged tenure, universities on March 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Good luck with that. There’s plenty of drama to tenure decisions, but it plays out slowly—though I guess the months involved an writing an article and the months it takes to hear a journal’s decision can be glossed in an 80s-style montage with bouncy music in the background.
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