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Retrench When? When They Want To!
In a recent blog entry I noted that, given the important role that tenure plays in protecting academic freedom, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) asserts that removal of tenure because of an institution's financial distress should...
Newman, Idea of a University, and Knowledge for its Own Sake
I was surprised to see Inside Higher Ed referencing Cardinal Newman in their latest edition ("How Would Newman Fare Today?" http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/09/17/newman) -- admittedly, I don't keep up with the announcements about beatification out of the...
Donoghue on Humanities in The Chronicle: What is a university?
Frank Donoghue's article in the Chronicle is misguided: he forgets the public good that comes from broad-based public higher education. Frank Donoghue's recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education (Can the Humanities Survive the 21st Century?...
PASSHE’s Administrative Bloat: Just How Many Managers Does It Take?
Sometimes it's just plain hard to not snicker, smirk, or just outright laugh. As our PASSHE officials and local managers preach about dire financial situations, as they strip away release time and pare down summer schools, as they...
PASSHE’s Ad Hoc Retrenchment Threatens Us All
Stripping faculty of tenure is a serious matter. It ought not done based on dire predictions of what might happen; it should only occur, as the AAUP says, “under extraordinary circumstances because of a demonstrably bona fide financial exigency, i.e., an imminent...
Is Our Mission to Support Administrators?
Today's newsflash from Inside Higher Ed is an article titled "Dollars and Sense" (http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/08/25/budgeting). This article makes a virtue out of a mantra of "no margin, no mission." This piece of news comes less than a week after...
Where are we going and Why is Bill Gates driving?
Those of you who read the Chronicle frequently might have seen the front page article in the Aug. 13 edition. Here it is for those of you who haven't seen it: http://chronicle.com/article/Can-Gates-Foundations-Mill/123824 . What is revealed in the article is...
Will Your Provost’s Head Explode? Are Draconian Cuts on the Way?
Even before yesterday's Meet & Discuss meeting, word had trickled out that PASSHE University's were being asked by the OOC (Office of the Chancellor) to prepare for budget scenarios that could include cuts in state appropriations as deep as 15% for the fiscal year...