What are you reading, watching, thinking about this week? As usual, here's a few which have been on our mind. Let us know your thoughts on any/all of them. If you have items you'd like us to consider for the top five, add them in the comments or send them to Tom or Mike. "Where are the jobs" is a hot topic on campus and has a lot of relationship to politics. Here's a sampler from Tom: 1. From Where the Jobs Are (and Aren't) [in Poli-Sci] (Scott Jaschik. Inside Higher Education. 9/3/2010): During the … [Read more...] about Week in Review: Where the Jobs Are Edition
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Trusting in the Lord in a Secular Workplace or Job Security in Academia
On the road to listen to* Faculty & Student/Post-Doc's at a major research university discuss Trusting in the Lord in a Secular Workplace or Job Security in Academia over lunch, description below. If you were present for the conversation, what would you share? Some of my thoughts later, gotta run. ... Proverbs 3:5 and Psalm 18:2 speak to the importance of trusting in the Lord in times of trial. The recent Veritas Forum topic on truth and academia and the tragedy at the University of Alabama-Huntsville over a … [Read more...] about Trusting in the Lord in a Secular Workplace or Job Security in Academia
Shaping the Next Generation of Higher Education
Two recent articles on the profession of education worth consideration: In Search of Education Leaders, by Bob Herbert, NY Times Op-Ed, December 4, 2009 The Ph.D. Problem: On the professionalization of faculty life, doctoral training, and the academy's self-renewal, by Louis Menand, Harvard Magazine, November-December 2009. HT: Miller. Anyone willing to take a stab at why the educational system is so leaky and how we find/develop educational leaders which serve their department, discipline, campus, education … [Read more...] about Shaping the Next Generation of Higher Education
Quotes: Eugene Peterson and Wendell Berry
This week, two powerful quotes that question the current system of education. I hope that they won't seem too negative put together like this, and maybe this is the wrong tone for the start of the academic year. On the other hand, perhaps you're struggling to get excited about this year, being stressed on all sides, and feeling like you don't belong. May these words affirm that it's not just you. First, commenter Hannah sent us this quote from Eugene Peterson. It was written to David Taylor, of the Diary of an Arts … [Read more...] about Quotes: Eugene Peterson and Wendell Berry
Week in Review
Welcome to this week's Week in Review! If you have your own link or suggestion, please add it to the comments, or email it to Tom or Mike. From Tom Historic Bible pages put online (BBC News, July 6, 2009): Check out "virtual re-unification" about 800 pages of the 1,600-year-old Codex Sinaiticus manuscript, i.e., the earliest surviving Christian Bible, at www.codexsinaiticus.org. Is it a The rival to the Bible (BBC News, Roger Bolton, October 6, 2008)? Is Having More Than 2 Children an Unspoken Taboo? (Robin … [Read more...] about Week in Review