by Amy E. Slaton | Mar 30, 2013 | Higher Ed, Policy
This week, faculty senate leaders of all three public higher ed systems in California (the community colleges, state colleges, and University of California system) made the bold move jointly to express opposition to a plan that would encourage major growth in massive...
by Amy E. Slaton | Mar 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
In the pursuit of more affordable higher ed for more Americans the idea of “direct assessment” strikes many as promising, as Paul Fain reports in “Beyond the Credit Hour,” on InsideHigherEd. This is a move to use competency tests, rather than...
by Amy E. Slaton | Mar 10, 2013 | Higher Ed, Job Creation
In trying to understand how American high-tech education forecloses political criticality, I’ve been reading a 1982 article by Michael Ryan in Yale French Studies called “Deconstruction and Radical Teaching.” Ryan writes of emerging justifications for the growing...
