Knowledge and Hackwork

Knowledge and Hackwork

Inside Higher Ed has a good overview of the Bush II Presidential Library controversy. The facility at Southern Methodist will have three parts, including a policy center that aims to "celebrate" the president and his record.The obvious problems include:knowledge being produced on a university campus without the normal safeguards of peer reviewknowledge that will be received...

Private Giving 2007

Private Giving 2007

The Council for Aid to Education has released its figures for higher education philanthropy in 2007. Overall donations were up 6.3 percent, which is close to the annual average for the last ten years. The Chronicle of Higher Education story also offered what have become standard comments about the skew in private giving towards the very top.Large donations to the nation's wealthiest...

Problems with Private Partnerships

Problems with Private Partnerships

Student loans produced a lot of stories about conflicts of interest last year, and some mild clean-up activity. One pattern there was kickbacks - gifts...