Showing posts with label values education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label values education. Show all posts
Sunday, March 18, 2012

Colman McCarthy on Low Comedy and High Cons in GOP Race

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Colman McCarthy, bless his heart, tells it like it is about the GOP primaries , in brilliant commentary at National Catholic Reporter...
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...
Monday, February 1, 2010

Power, Sociopaths, and Social Intelligence: Dacher Keltner on the Paradox of Power

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  I’m fascinated by the research of psychologist Dacher Keltner re: power, which I’ve recently discovered through Andrew Sullivan’s Daily D...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Bishop Harry Jackson on "Disproportionately Educated" Gays and the African-American Community

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And in the curioser and curioser world that Christian homophobes seem intent on creating for themselves (and the rest of us, if we give them...
Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Cultic Catholicism and the Demise of Catholic Influence in the Public Square

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In my posting yesterday about the ongoing intra-Catholic discussion of the funeral of Senator Kennedy (and how that discussion is being re...
Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Bishop Joseph Martino Resigns: David Gibson on the Backstory and Health Care Reform

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I last wrote (as well as I can ascertain) about Archbishop Joseph Martino of Scranton towards the end of March, when I discussed his attack...
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 27, 2009

Edward M. Kennedy: The Best Old Boy Who Ever in This World Did Live

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As I think about the loss of Ted Kennedy and about an appropriate way to eulogize someone who contributed so much to the United States, from...
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...
Friday, July 31, 2009

Thom Hartmann on the CEO as Sociopath: Applications for Higher Education

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Thom Hartmann posted an interesting piece at the Alternet site a few days ago. He suggests that, to be a successful CEO—particularly in th...
Sunday, February 15, 2009

Stimulus Package as Opportunity to Reshape American Education

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Nicholas Kristof has some important things to say today about American education in his New York Times op-ed piece about poor educational s...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Eating to Save the Earth: More New Year's Notes

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I blogged shortly after new year's day on cooking to save the earth ( http://bilgrimage.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-years-notes-on-eating-t...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Arne Duncan as Education Secretary: Reflections on Obama's Cabinet Choices

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I’ve been ho-hum about most of Mr. Obama’s cabinet appointments. But the choice of Arne Duncan as education secretary interests me and even...
Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Questions Not To Be Asked: Brigham Young University Censorship of Student's Art Exhibit

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Fascinating account yesterday on several blogs about an art project at Brigham Young University that has proven surprisingly controversial. ...