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To be clear by “managerial class” I mean upper management. Deans are often in a difficult position between the faculty…
Recent articles in the Chronicle of Higher Ed and WSJ suggest that the new managerial strategy is to use states…
I don’t have administrative insight that other commentators evidently do, but I will say this with my biased banner proudly…
I’m at a medium sized R2 with an undergraduate only program. A few years ago the Provost announced an AI…
The philosopher in “Update” is correct, and the relevant question is about budget structures. I’m a philosopher in a different…
It’s too bad that the anonymous senior academic who laments the absence of the GRE as a “useful filter” nevertheless…
Here. Mr. Edsall notes many lives that have been or will be loss because of his policies, without even mentioning the many victims of his reckless use of U.S. military power, most recently, in Iran.
UPDATE: And more on the most corrupt President in the history of the U.S.
It’s worth noting that NYU, MIT, Rutgers, UT and Harvard (prior to pausing admissions) all list the GRE as required…