“V.P. Joe Biden, a few months back, said that the reason tuitions are out of control is because of the high price of college faculty. He has NO IDEA what he is talking about. At latest count, we have 1.5 million university professors in this country, 1 million of whom are adjuncts. One million professors …
Category: education
Aug 26 2025
from The Fall of Faculty by Benjamin Ginsberg
“Alas, today’s full-time professional administrators tend to view management as an end in and of itself.” p2 Yes! All managers. Tend to forget they serve. Their job is to enable others to do their jobs well. They are merely facilitators, organizers—of resources, schedules, payments … “Every year, hosts of administrators and staffers are added to …
Jul 09 2025
“Thinking Being Offloaded to AI Even in Elite Medical Programs”
Thinking Being Offloaded to AI Even in Elite Medical Programs “I can’t remember the last time I asked a medical student in tutorial group a question that was answered without looking at a screen.” And this: “We have a 1M master solution, we need to make a 50 mL of buffer that has that component …
Jun 05 2025
An idea for profs
Here’s an idea I’d implement if I were still teaching: Have your students grade each other’s papers, anonymously. First, they have to establish critieria and justify them, then they have to grade the paper they’re randomly assigned accordingly. You grade them according to how well they graded the other’s paper. Hopefully, this will counteract the …
May 30 2025
Freedom of Speech vs DEI initiatives
Margaret Munn – Defending Freedom of Speech in Canada: The Impact of DEI Initiatives
Aug 27 2023
from Dale Spender’s Nattering on the Net — quotes and notes
According to 19th C feminist scholar Matilda Joslyn Gage, 9 million women were executed or burned for having knowledge—i.e., for being witches (p163) Wow. Did not know it was that many. “Had women ever contributed to the design of roads and vehicles, there is no doubt that the entire system would look very different. …
Dec 01 2021
The Authority Gap, Mary Ann Sieghart – A MUST READ
As I was reading this book, I realized right away I wanted to post about it, so I started making a list of bits to mention, but very quickly there were just too many!! So – A MUST READ. This book is FULL of all the stats you ever wanted to support your personal experience: …
Nov 10 2021
College/University Students are Not Expected to Read
“A student who worked as a janitor at his college was sanctioned because he was seen reading a book called Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan … (The image on the cover was upsetting to the two people who reported him.) …” (The Coddling the American Mind, …
Nov 05 2021
Handing Over Our Thinking to Algorithms
I was struck by something Lukianoff and Haidt said in The Coddling of the American Mind when they describe the response to Rebecca Tuvel’s article (“In Defense of Transracialism”) in Hypatia: “It is striking how many of the critics’ complaints refer not to Tuvel’s arguments but to her word choices” (p105). At first, I thought, …
Sep 29 2019
Educating Women to Reduce Over-population. Right. They’re the problem.
So the other day I came across, yet again, mention of the idea that educating women would reduce over-population. (Right. They’re the problem.) I find that questionable. If education makes the difference, then why aren’t we educating the men as well? And if the men are already educated, then clearly education isn’t the solution: they’re …
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