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. 1. In the last Week in Review we kicked off with highlighting Seth Godin's take on the coming melt-down in higher education. Since then, the Chronicle of Higher Education thought Godin's piece was worth posting. That action, along with the … [Read more...] about Week in Review: Why Can’t We Be Friends? 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
Week in Review: Christo et Ecclesiae Edition
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. 1. Why Harvard Students Should Study More Religion (Lisa Miller, Newsweek): A look at Harvard's (lack of) religion in its undergraduate curriculum, with special attention to Louis Menand's attempt to include a course called "Reason and Faith" in … [Read more...] about Week in Review: Christo et Ecclesiae Edition
Review: Life on the Tenure Track
I have a terrible confession to make: I've been giving away copies of a book that I had never read. For the past two summers, we've surveyed ESN members about their past year, and members who had made a recent career transition - earned a degree, started a new job, received tenure - have been offered the free book of their selection. I included among our offerings a book, James Lang's Life on the Tenure Track: Lessons from the First Year, based on the high recommendations of others, and I promptly (18 months ago) … [Read more...] about Review: Life on the Tenure Track
The Future of Faculty Driven by Technology & Organizational Efficiency?
Some final thoughts on The Faculty of the Future: Leaner, Meaner, More Innovative, Less Secure (Forum, Chronicle of Higher Education, 7/10/2009) from a friend who offers his gifts to Christ by serving as a business professor. Do any readers have comments on technological determinism and/or the striving for organizational efficiency in higher education? There are a few elements of the second commentary (TIMOTHY CARMODY) which make sense - but it reads to much like standard technological determinism predictions of … [Read more...] about The Future of Faculty Driven by Technology & Organizational Efficiency?