Showing posts with label higher education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label higher education. Show all posts
Sunday, December 23, 2012

Wayne LaPierre's Catholic Education: Questions Worth Asking

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At his This Cultural Christian site, Mike McShea notes that the Wikipedia biography for Wayne LaPierre , executive director of the N...
Monday, April 30, 2012

Gender Gap in Higher Education in Utah: Women on Bottom

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Writing in today's Salt Lake Tribune , Brian Maffly reports that for years now, women in Utah have not entered or completed colleg...
Saturday, March 10, 2012

Paul Krugman on GOP Investment in Ignorance: Whys and Wherefores

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Paul Krugman explains (very well) why one major American political party, the Republicans, have "made a hard right turn against...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

In Higher Education News: Bethune-Cookman University President Trudie Kibbe Reed Resigns/Retires

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In the world of higher education, a very strange story now coming out of Bethune-Cookman University in Florida: as Michael Stratford ...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

UC Davis Story Continues to Unfold, after Pepper-Spraying

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A few updates on the story at UC Davis, following the pepper-spraying of student demonstrators last week: Chancellor Linda Katehi conti...
Sunday, November 20, 2011

UC Davis Chancellor Katehi Does the Perp Walk

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Monday, October 24, 2011

Frank Rich on Occupy Wall Street and Long-Term Fixes

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Frank Rich writes yesterday at New York Magazine about what Occupy Wall Street signifies long-term for American culture and its politi...
Saturday, October 2, 2010

Neil Patrick Harris and Lance Bass Address Teen Coming Out Issues; Many College Campuses Remain Unsafe for LGBT Students, Faculty, Staff

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Another valuable online resource for teens dealing with issues of gender identity and sexual orientation, and adults hoping to offer ...
Tuesday, July 13, 2010

NY Times on the Country-Clubization of American Higher Education: Money Flowing to Adminstrators' Pockets, While Students and Faculty Suffer

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Sam Dillon's recent New York Times article about how college and university presidents are now spending their schools' money con...
Thursday, June 24, 2010

Gay and Lesbian Leaders in U.S. Catholic Colleges and Universities: Continuing the Discussion

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Anne Hendershott has emailed me after my two postings (and here ) questioning her recent claim that "[t]here are openly gay men and...
Monday, June 21, 2010

Anne Hendershott Addresses Marquette's Withdrawal of Job Offer to Lesbian Scholar, Claims Catholic Colleges Have Openly Gay Leaders

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Wall Street Journal carried an article last Friday by Anne Hendershott of King's College in New York, rebutting the claim that Ma...
Monday, May 17, 2010

Gays in Catholic Universities: A Stained-Glass Ceiling? Questions about Marquette and Seton Hall University

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  I wrote earlier today about a situation in the archdiocese of Boston in which the Catholic church’s longstanding practice of discriminati...
Tuesday, September 1, 2009

GLSEN on Bullying of Gay Youths: Worse Where Education Levels Are Low

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And last but not least today: the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) has just issued a media release about an important GL...
Sunday, August 30, 2009

Getting Democracy Back: Sara Robinson on Education in a Fascist-Proof Society

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As an educator, I’ve written extensively (most recently here ) on this blog about my intent concern that American higher education is now fa...
Thursday, August 20, 2009

Higher Education and the Money Racket: Continued Abdication of Leadership

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I’ve written frequently on this blog about the extremely destructive effects that the adoption of a corporate CEO style of leadership is hav...
Saturday, August 1, 2009

The Revolving-Door Syndrome: More on the Hazards of The Corporate CEO Model of Educational Leadership

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I said earlier that I had made my final post for the day--but I should know better than to say that anything I plan or do is ever final. I...
Monday, June 1, 2009

"Maurice" (1987) and the Gay Journey to the 21st Century

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An e-friend and I were discussing the 1987 Merchant-Ivory film “Maurice” recently. For those who may not have seen this movie or read the E...
Friday, May 8, 2009

Leadership and Kairos: The Gay-Rights Tipping Point and Moral Implications for Leaders

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Sharon Olds says, “When you speak from your real spot, people are not indifferent,” and Thoreau ( Walden ) notes, “Our whole life is startli...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on GLSEN Day of Silence

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On 25 March, I reported on this blog ( here ) that the new Secretary of Education Arne Duncan met on 23 March with representatives of Gay, ...
Wednesday, April 8, 2009

New York Legislation Opposing School Bullying: Implications for Church-Owned Universities

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Pam Spaulding’s House Blend blog is reporting ( here ) today that the New York house has just passed a Dignity for All Students act which pr...