Showing posts with label general edcation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label general edcation. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Thoughts on Giorgio Agamben - Requiem per gli studenti (A Requiem for Students) and the Birth of the Hollowed Out Simulated University

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Therefore the Lord , the God of hosts, the Lord , saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highway...
Friday, November 1, 2019

What is the Fundamental Task of Education?: Xi Jinping's Concept of 立德树人 [Cultivating People of Moral Character] and its Implementation Through Undergraduate University Reform in 教育部关于一流本科课程建设的实施意见 [Implementation Opinions of the Ministry of Education on the Construction of First-class Undergraduate Courses]

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(Pix Credit: 兰资环学院教育实践透视立德树人工程 凝心聚力锻造思想政治教育 ) Education reform has been a priority of the Xi Jinping leadership for some time.  It is...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Diversity at Penn State: Reports of the Joint Diversity Awareness Task Force--US/IL Courses Survey--Legislative Recommendations

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    (Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) It has been my great honor to serve as the Chair of the Penn State University Joint Diversity Aw...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

AAUP Reports on Mass Faculty Dismissals at the University of Southern Maine and on Felician College

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(Pix (c) Larry Catá  Bcaker 2015) From a recent AAUP Press Release Last month the AAUP released the reports of investigations of al...
Sunday, April 20, 2014

The State of Diversity at Penn State--An Interview With Leaders of the Joint Diversity Task Force

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(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) Issues of diversity have become an important element of engagement among stakeholders at P...
Friday, March 21, 2014

General Education Reform: The Students Speak, Will Faculty Listen? Marginalizing the Student Voice in the Reform Process

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The Pennsylvania State University, like many universities of its size and reputation, periodically review and modify what has become a stap...
Sunday, March 9, 2014

Diversity in Silence--The Joint Diversity Task Force Report at Penn State University Becomes Less Visible

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Penn State University, like many other similarly situated institutions of post secondary education, has been struggling with the very hard ...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Managing Perception and Creating Reality Through Data Management--The Battle Over the "Best" Way to Understand MOOCs

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I have recently posted about the habits of lazy and perhaps bad management as an impediment to the  development of MOOCs as an important el...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Outcome Measures, Transparency and the Failure of Universities to Cultivate Effective Service Missions

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I have written about the way in which universities, including state and state-assisted universities with public and service missions, have ...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Stanley Katz: “Thinking Internationally: Internationalizing the Undergraduate Curriculum”; Keynote Address: Global Penn State Conference 2013

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On September 27-28, 2013, Penn State University hosts a provocative conference as part of its Global Penn State challenge, " Internat...
Monday, September 9, 2013

Stress Points and Structural Challenges for the Continued Viability of the University Faculty Senate: Remarks Delivered To Past Chairs of the Penn State University Faculty Senate

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It was great honor to address the former chairs of the Penn State University Faculty Senate at a luncheon in their hono...
Thursday, June 27, 2013

Engaged Scholarship--De-Centering Faculty From Research and Teaching in a Relentless March Toward a Training Model for Middle Tier Universities?

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The financial crises of the first two decades of the 21st century has forced innovation on universities.  Forced to compete for decreasing ...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

Godzilla Versus the Swamp Creature: MOOCs, the Control of Online Education and the Move From Education to Training for Labor Markets

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While much attention has been drawn to MOOCs from the perspective of large institutions and those charged with increasing the productivity ...
Friday, April 19, 2013

On the AAUP Condemnation of National Louis University: Lessons for the Exploitative Potential of General Education and Its Pernicious Effects on the Tenure System

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Universities are entering an era of uncertainty, and one consequence is an indulgence of bad behavior excused by panic in the face of finan...