You have to decide who you trust before you decide what to believe
From yesterday’s studio shoot.
A weblog by Johnathon Williams
Posted 1 week ago
When William Blake came fashionably late to parties he’d blame it on archangels, prophecies broadcast between the leaves of ordinary trees in the orchard: those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained…
Posted 3 weeks ago
So I don’t forget where to find it again.
Posted 1 month ago
More on “Higher Education?”, this time from the Wall Street Journal, which pulls this statistical nugget: The administrator-to-student ratio at American universities has doubled since 1976.
Posted 1 month ago
The Atlantic interviews Andrew Hacker, author of Higher Education?, a critique of the modern university system.
Hacker on tenure:
What bothers us, too, is that over 300,000 professors have it. That’s a tremendous number. What that means is these people never leave. There’s hardly any turnover in the senior ranks—not just at Harvard, Yale, and Stanford but at small colleges in Kentucky, everywhere. You go to a campus and over two thirds of the faculty have been there at least 25 years. They begin to stagnate. In many ways, they become infantilized, embroiled in ideological issues like faculty parking.
Posted 1 month ago
Terrific use of a loose refrain.
Posted 1 month ago
Protean is new Wordpress theme from Landau Reece that allows bloggers to customize their website design for individual blog posts. We think it’s a world’s first, and so we decided we’d give it away for free.
Note to self: upload this to your WP test install to play with later.