Showing posts with label universities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label universities. Show all posts
Saturday, May 4, 2024

Free speech and universities

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 At Stanford, recent event are helping us remember that our speech policy is the First Amendment. That hasn't always been front of mind ...
Saturday, November 11, 2023

Graduate hotels, and campus humor

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  I've been spending some time at Berkeley this quarter, and have twice stayed at the Graduate Hotel adjacent to the campus, Graduate Be...
Sunday, October 29, 2023

Transcript withholding by colleges and universities to be regulated

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  Inside Higher Ed has the story: U.S. Bans Most Withholding of Transcripts. The Education Department strengthens its oversight of instituti...
Friday, October 27, 2023

HBS Dean Datar's statement about Hamas, Gaza, and antisemitism on campus

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During World War II, many anti-Nazi people of good will  might have been disturbed by the firebombing of Dresden (sometimes said to be in re...
Sunday, October 15, 2023

Hamas, Gaza and American universities: more letters, and two speeches

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  First, letters from the President of the Hebrew University to his counterparts at Harvard and Stanford: “You Have Failed Us” Letters by He...
Thursday, October 12, 2023

Thinking locally about Hamas, and murderous antisemitism, on college campuses

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  How should universities deal with controversy in the midst of horrors? Both Harvard and Stanford are having troubles with talking about Is...
Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Will unionization at universities change the United Auto Workers?

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 There is an increasing presence of labor unions at American universities, which may well bring big changes to those universities. Here is a...
Thursday, March 18, 2021

Data use agreements, and university research policies regarding restrictions on publication

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  Since the beginning of the year, I've been sent several Data Use Agreements from organizations interested in the possibility of sharin...
Monday, March 18, 2019

Palgiarism detection, student data, and Ed Tech: the purchase of Turnitin

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Here's a story that caught my eye in the Chronicle of Higher Ed, about the purchase of Turnitin , known so far primarily for plagiarism...
Saturday, March 24, 2018

The NCAA cartel

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The March 2018 issue of the Review of Industrial Organization is devoted to a  Symposium: The NCAA Cartel In the Introduction, Roger Blai...