by Amy E. Slaton | Apr 29, 2013 | Higher Ed, Job Creation, Media
Big Data, it seems, is suddenly very big. Among the social scientists with whom I spend time, newly massive, deep-tissue-massaged bodies of data have found currency. As a research tool, the emergent technique seems to promise a rehabilitation of conventional,...
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...
by Amy E. Slaton | Feb 24, 2013 | Higher Ed, Job Creation
Last week I visited UCSB to talk about ideas circulating around labor, education and high-tech innovation in America today. I had prepared a couple of talks that weren’t exactly upbeat; I have little confidence in the promises currently being made about biotech,...
by Amy E. Slaton | Dec 1, 2012 | Higher Ed, Job Creation, Media
Edie Fraser, meet Adam Davidson. Fraser, an expert on human resource issues in STEM-dependent industries, is the author of “The Root of Real Jobs: Filling the STEM Talent Gap.” This piece appeared in the Huffington Post the other day and can best be...
by Amy E. Slaton | Nov 17, 2012 | Higher Ed, Job Creation, Media, Policy
Itching to know which ideas about the economy actually solidified during the recent campaign season? Which ones Obama toted, intact, through the onslaught of right-wing rants about the 47% (according to Romney, people who remain jobless because lazy…or, shiftless AND...
by Amy E. Slaton | Apr 29, 2012 | Higher Ed, Job Creation, Science Studies
This blog usually focuses on opening the door to science occupations for groups traditionally under-represented in those fields. Obviously, one aim here is the creation of more opportunities for rewarding and remunerative STEM-related careers for women,...
