Put a check mark (✓) if you agree with the statement.Put a cross (X) if you disagree with the statement.Form A1. To strive to teach well is to pattern after Christ, who was the Master Teacher. There can be no higher calling.3. Teachers are the nation’s leaders.5. Teaching develops the mind.8. Dealing with youth tends […]
@thinkprogress makes the progressive case against higher tuition costs. Careful. #highered
March 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Progressives frequently lament the increasing costs of higher education, as Think Progress does here. Young persons are saddled with debt and this is a very troubling situation. As a faculty member, I have a somewhat different perspective. I suppose it’s easy, from a student’s perspective, to criticize all aspects of a university for rising tuition […]
Article I authored available #openaccess in the journal Workplace #highered
February 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
You can access the article here from the journal’s website. It’s going to be one of a few others in an upcoming print edition. Basically, it recalls my first year or so as someone who has increased efforts in direct advocacy for public schools. It has been challenging in many ways and the article flushes […]
I’m going to critique [a] #studentvoice, so bear with me here
February 23, 2013 By 30 Comments
There’s something I need to get off my chest, and that’s what a blog is for, correct? In recent months, a particular student has been thrust into the spotlight as a passionate advocate for progressive values in education. This young person, who is of high school age, wrote a book about it. Upon completing high […]
The cold-hearted scam of academic publishing RIP Aaron Schwartz #highered
January 13, 2013 By 7 Comments
SM Welcomes Elwood Robinson
October 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Dr. Elwood L. Robinson is the Provost and Vice-President of Academic Affairs at Cambridge College. He was the founding Dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at North Carolina Central University (NCCU). From 1996-1999, he served as the chairperson of the Department of Psychology at North Carolina Central University. The former Chair of […]
What do #education professors do in #highered? #edtech
October 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A petition to #NYRegents to end reliance on #HST, congrats to #highered
April 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Here’s a link to a petition from professors in the state of New York who are warning of the over-reliance on standardized testing to education young persons. Even higher education faculty are seeing the deleterious effects of a test based education. The petition intro: As lifelong educators and researchers, from across the State of New […]
The Republican take on college and career readiness, courtesy of #Santorum
January 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Before I get to it, I want to remind you to please Google Santorum, check the first entry. Now that that’s out of the way, I want to draw your attention to his recent comments about not forcing every kid into college, from the Wall Street Journal online: “We are leaving so many children behind,” […]
UC Regents should really be ashamed
November 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I don’t really comment much on higher education, but the Regents of the UC system should be ashamed and embarrassed: Before they left the small room, the regents voted unanimously to ask the state to increase the university’s funding for the 2012-13 fiscal year to $2.7 billion from $2.3 billion. The regents also approved salary […]
A potential for an education research boycott? #AERA13 #highered
I actually don’t know if “civilians” understand how academic publication works, at least for the humdrum, commoner, the everyday “scholar” who doesn’t have major book deals. Let me explain. So, in order to receive tenure and promotion as a faculty member, which I think might be over-rated at this point, a faculty member needs to […]