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Texas A&M and politicized threats to higher education
My alma mater has been in the news a lot lately, and not in a good way. A botched hiring of a longtime journalist and former student to lead the revived journalism program resulted in the resignation of the university’s president. Last week, I wrote an essay for Texas Monthly on everything that had happened and tried to put some context around it. That piece led to a discussion with Tom Fox for…
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Butler University will offer a Trump resistance class
Butler University will offer a Trump resistance class
No doubt this will surely enhance any one’s resume, particularly if you want to work at Vox. The professor teaching the course, Ann M. Savage, has a 3.2 rating on RateMyProfessor.com. Her picture is not provided on the Butler University web site. A description of the course (which is full): “An in-depth study of a particular topic in the field of media, rhetoric and culture. This course offers a…
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Butler University will offer a Trump resistance class
Butler University will offer a Trump resistance class
No doubt this will surely enhance any one’s resume, particularly if you want to work at Vox. The professor teaching the course, Ann M. Savage, has a 3.2 rating on RateMyProfessor.com. Her picture is not provided on the Butler University web site. A description of the course (which is full): “An in-depth study of a particular topic in the field of media, rhetoric and culture. This course offers a…
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In many cases, [Western universities] have already begun to interpret the growing sensitivity to the dying little cultures of the world as a passing fad and begin to use subterfuges that would allow them to project a politically correct image, while allowing them to do business as usual. Three of the more popular and, at the same time, sophisticated subterfuges are:
-Openness to traditional systems of knowledge, combined with a cost-benefit analysis that decontextualizes the systems entirely and fits them into the existing institutionalized structure of commonsense on pragmatic grounds;
-Acceptance of a cultural relativism that sees every culture as having its ethnic versions of knowledge…while at the same time holding the modern systems to be universal and transcultural, so that the former can be partly neutralized as an object of scholarly inquiry and expertise of the latter;
- Emphasis on equitable, just distribution of ‘universal’ epistemic and technical knowledge in the expectation that such redistributive justice will redeem the alienating, oppressive aspects of some systems of modern knowledge and to divert the alienating, oppressive aspects of some systems of modern knowledge and divert the criticisms of the contents of these systems to their contexts, specifically to the control exercised over them by organized vested interests.
Ashis Nandy
MOOCs about MOOCs and other Education Topics
Looking to increase your fluency regarding the dynamics of teaching and learning in 21st century academic environment(s)? Below are a few MOOCs that might help:
Ongoing and Upcoming:
"E-learning and Digital Cultures" from University of Edinburgh
"e-Learning Ecologies" from University of Illinois
"How to Change the World" from Wesleyan University
"Internet History, Technology, and Security" from University of Michigan
"What future for education?" from University of London
Previous (but likely to have future sessions):
"Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills" from The University of Melbourne
"Globalization and You" from University of Washington
"Globalizing Higher Education and Research for the ‘Knowledge Economy’" from University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Bristol
"Metadata: Organizing and Discovering Information" from UNC-Chapel Hill
"Teaching Goes Massive: New Skills Required" from Universität Zürich | University of Zurich (UZH)
Why should I have to tell you that life is about compromise? As a career- and technical-education professor, I tell my students all the time that they may not land their dream job, but that they still have to work. I also tell them to get as much skill as they can, and acquire different talents, to have a variety of opportunities professionally. So when I read an article left in my box by an adjunct-teachers’ union about a dying, broken-hearted 83-year-old adjunct professor, I thought to myself, “Is that the kind of person we want teaching our young?” Do we want the person who was not able to be self-sufficient, pay their electric bill, or put food on their table? As one of my friends might say, “Time to put on your big-girl panties!”
this is fucking vile
For Richard Henry Green, recently declared to have been Yale College’s first known African-American graduate, fame, or at least the certainty of his claim on history, was fleeting. Recent weeks have brought nothing but new challengers.