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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…
…gutting the Voting Rights Act–one of the most decent and successful pieces of legislation aimed at counteracting the sorry history of American apartheid–on the basis of a “race neutrality” detached from reality may be among the worst. Justice Kagan’s dissent makes a lot of the correct points. What a disgrace.
UPDATE: A useful critique by election law expert Rick Hasen.
It’s worth noting that NYU, MIT, Rutgers, UT and Harvard (prior to pausing admissions) all list the GRE as required…