Tag Archives: Higher education

On thinking in a time of ideology

Posted by on March 26, 2011 1 comment

Recent pronouncements from various think-tanks and would-be-reformers of higher education have convinced me that there is an effort afoot to eradicate a certain kind of thinking from our universities. Couched in the name of ‘efficiency’ and ‘productivity’, research universities are …

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Higher ed budget woes: LIS at LSU faces closure

Posted by on May 25, 2010 5 comments

The perilous state of public higher education is accepted as some kind of natural condition by many who have grown accustomed to the news of tuition hikes amid complaints from university officials that the economic model is broken. But this …

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