Why choose a PUI for your undergraduate education:
Choosing the right college is a crucial decision that shapes your academic journey and future career. More often than not, the thought of...
Apr 146 min read
BECOMING A PROFESSOR AT A PUI – PART 1: SUCCEEDING, ADVANCING, AND PROFESSIONAL GROWTH
Tags: Faculty, Administrators In Part 1 of this series, we explored what it means to work at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution (PUI),...
Mar 165 min read
Administrative Bloat and the Erosion of Academic Governance: When the University Becomes Its Own Bureaucracy
Tags: Faculty, Administrators, Policy Makers In recent years, several universities have reported that administrative salaries now account for a larger share of their budgets than faculty salaries. This reversal of priorities is not an accounting oddity. It is a reflection of how deeply higher education has shifted from an academic to a managerial culture. The university, once organized around teaching and scholarship, now exists primarily to sustain its own administrative m
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Faculty Are Scholars and Citizens Too: The Concerning Trend of Faculty Punished for Free Speech… Off Campus
Tags: Faculty, Administrators In a recent post, we discussed how tenure and academic freedom should not serve as shields for faculty espousing political opinions outside their academic expertise while on campus or in their professional capacity. The principle of tenure was never meant to justify partisan activism under the guise of scholarship. But the same conviction that guides this view, the belief that academic freedom must be grounded in fairness, also demands that we de
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Tenure Protects Scholarship, Not Politics…. On Campus
The principle of tenure has long been central to higher education. It is designed not to guarantee lifelong employment but to protect...
Sep 253 min read