I find that the work of #teaching expands to fill whatever available time you give it - there's always a class plan to revise, a lecture to tweak, a student to talk to, a quiz to grade...so while I have some tried-and-true time management strategies I've found useful, I would really love to learn what you all have done to make the semester feel more manageable?
What #timemanagement hacks work for you? #highereducation@academicchatterhttps://higheredpraxis.substack.com/p/5-staying-organized-and-managing
AFSCME declared bargaining with UC to be at an impasse and is going on strike. Unless I've got the local (3299) wrong, they haven't updated their site yet.
UC's voluminous PR dept has published something. Take it with a boulder of salt when reading UC Labor Relations' side.
“Academia is a serious place, and it takes itself seriously. But it is also, like Hollywood or Washington, profoundly ridiculous … (and) can only really be understood through satire.” - A.O. Scott in New York Times Book Review (Feb 25, 2024). Here is a link to some Swiftean Advice for those who aspire to move up into academic administration (now termed 'executive leadership'
Some under-the-radar #highered news from #Ky : the attorney general has found that the University of Kentucky violated state open records laws when it withheld a "Statement of Work" relating to #Deloitte, a firm it consulted in developing controversial plans to end shared governance at the University.
Thank you, Fredrik. I've been concerned for decades that academics not lose the nerve of our vision. Here in Japan we have been through similar pressures for vocationalization, but fortunately in this case, education is a conservative sector of Japanese society that changes only incrementally. Incidentally, Japan had a university mainly for Confucian civil service preparation in the 8th Century Nara Period.
Your case for higher education being not primarily for vocational training but for a broader view to the good of society would be strengthened by adding the examples of Plato's Academy and Nālandā, which I discuss in "What is the Academic Life? 2. The Idea of the University." See https://www.academia.edu/35916771 if you like, or download the whole series from Knowledge Commons: https://hcommons.org/deposits/download/hc:26460/CONTENT/academic_life_series.pdf
In related Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences news, it is true - about half of the scholarly associations moved off McGill.
The Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID-ACEDI) was amongst the first to move its conference from McGill to l'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) thanks to the diligent work of the executive.
Having a college education shapes women’s work and family trajectories—including their marriage, parenting, and employment patterns—but the effects of education differ among Black, Latina, and white women, according to new research.
The president of #Barnard College lost a faculty-wide vote of no confidence on Tuesday, as criticism mounts over the school’s response to a pro- #Palestine 🇵🇸 encampment
It is the first no confidence vote against a president in the college’s history.
The hardest part of this semester was trying to urge #students, amid the available #technologies, to really #read. Most friends worldwide are on mobile phones, preferring short posts, and not easily accessing links. I can therefore be thankful for the global readership of my #publications in these #research#repositories:
Japan's ResearchMap (和英), where I have filled in #Japanese as well as English information about publications (6,600+ downloads): https://researchmap.jp/waoe
Huge. The higher education story to watch - not just in Canada but internationally.
RE: tuition hikes for out-of-province Canadian and international students for the only three English universities in Quebec: 'We are undertaking...legal action because we believe that these measures are illegal and if upheld, will threaten McGill’s mission,' Deep Saini, President and VC @mcgillu
My fly-on-the-wall observations on AI and higher education (at least teaching and learning) is that most universities really do not know what to do. Many do not have integrated policies. Most professors don't really know what it is about.
Profs need training, procedural and pedagogical. Universities should be spearheading the response. However, that is not what I see.
An independent panel finds the Ford government cut investment in universities and colleges. Ontario spends only 57% per student of what other provinces spend. The province would have to spend $4B/year just to reach the country's average.
'The government muzzled the panelists from speaking about the rationale behind their recommendations.'