Never not shouting that this is DOUBLE wage theft, from the staffer who should be doing the work, and from the reimbursee forced to do it, purely for the purpose of channeling often public university funds into private app developer coffers and it sucks.
Is a university board’s duty to protect the institution or its mission? Per AGB, it’s the mission. The “duty of obedience” requires boards ensure their institution operates to further its stated purposes—and to amend the mission itself when necessary. Mission is the North Star. 1/2
I'm looking for Hanover Research's 2023 report, "Higher Education Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Survey." Anybody have it? No longer on their website. "Insights Blog" post disappeared. LinkedIn posts about it deleted. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/web/20240812...
For the FAN Fellows engaging this year’s Institute on Faculty Voice & Collaborative Leadership, file this under “faculty rights and responsibilities“.
#academicfreedom
Another quality use of metaphor in explaining the illogics for Alito’s opinion eviscerating the Voting Rights Act.
An Ivy+ Mellon Leadership Fellows gets Duke’s award for those who reject the false choice between being a great scholar and being a great teacher.
#facultyadvancementnetwork
This analysis of how ideas spread in the early scientific revolution, from person to person and place to place, lines up so nicely with @alliemorgan.bsky.social's 2018 paper on the diffusion of scientific ideas via modern faculty hiring networks epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10....
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Once upon a time, you'd go to give a talk at another university and a nice administrator would hand you a W-9 to sign and they'd send you a check in the mail for the honorarium.
Now you have to spend a half hour entering data on a Special Contractor Website that was designed in a lab by sadists.