What If Some Faculty Don’t Want to Come Back to Campus?
I don’t want to do anything to deny that there is going to be an awful lot of suffering in the weeks ahead, but it does appear that the end…
The all-faculty university.
JP and I wrote about Western Governors University in Education Is Not an App. Therefore, when I heard that the Inspector General's Office at the Department of Education had asked…
The means of educational production.
I've had two articles come out in the last two days, and I think both deserve at least a shout-out here. The first is a Chronicle Vitae "column" about teaching…
BYOB (Be Your Own Boss).
You might not know this about me (as I don't write about it much here), but I'm Co-President of the Colorado Conference of the American Association of University Professors (or…
MOOCs: A Postmortem
MOOCs are dead. "How can I possibly argue that MOOCs are dead?," you may ask. After all, to borrow the stats just from Coursera, they have: 1600 courses, 130+ specializations,…
“I don’t need your civil war.”
All us historians let out a loud sigh when we read that story about Republican Senator Ron Johnson wanting to replace us all with Ken Burns videos. It's an incredibly…
“I always feel like somebody’s watching me.”
My old friend Historiann has a post up today that really deserves every professor's attention. The subject is a new-fangled productivity measuring tool now being implemented at Baa Ram U.:…
What happens if you’re the asshole?
There 's a Chronicle article from last week that has been stuck in my craw ever since I read it. You may have read it when it was free for…
“With or without you.”
So it appears that Western Governors University [WGU] is being scrutinized by the federal government about the role of faculty in its competency-based online offerings. Here's the key part of…
Worker’s Control in Academia.
There I go, bringing David Montgomery into it again...
