Bottom line (as we say), Naomi Riley should be given kudos for a Contribution by Omission: A prominent, powerful, and evolving justification for tenure lies in the protection of faculty from shape-shifted corporate colleagues. This capability is one that should be taken up as a serious –even a top-drawer– justification for the continuation of tenure.
"The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter,
which just weeds out people whoare too independent, and who
think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on
-- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions."
-Noam Chomsky
which just weeds out people whoare too independent, and who
think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on
-- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions."
-Noam Chomsky
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One probabilistic computer per child
3/12/2009
OLPC may see a new competitor enter the market. Utilizing a new microprocessor technology that embraces probabilistic logic computing rather than traditional boolean logic computing, a team at Rice University is designing a digital, touchscreen, LED slate for deployment in developing countries. Probabilistic computing permits devices to provide correct answers most of the time rather [...]
Can furloughs save land grant universities?
2/2/2009
A friend and colleague at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington wrote to me that, “UNCW MAY be doing furloughs like we saw at ASU. [...] they will say ‘take off a day a week.’” As more state-funded universities are looking at furloughs to help remedy financial crises, I’m starting to think that furloughs might not [...]
Grim outlook on college affordability
12/3/2008
Today, the New York Times reports that, “the rising cost of college — even before the recession — threatens to put higher education out of reach for most Americans,” rapidly outpacing increases in family income … and even outpacing increases in health care expenses. Citing a report by the National Center for Public Policy and [...]
“No problem left behind”
5/13/2008
Our second post this week on the United States’ unstable orbit around mediocrity focuses on Matt Miller’s critique of education in America from the January/February 2008 Atlantic Monthly: “First, kill all the school boards.” He writes that “local control has become a disaster for our schools” and that school districts are stunted by four key [...]
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