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Category Archives: Future of the University
Academics: bring your own identity | Amber at Warwick: academic technology
Academics: bring your own identity | Amber at Warwick: academic technology. Good post here on academic identity that ties in with much of our own thinking on altmetrics and owning accountability.
Why study philosophy?
The #1 reason listed by the University of Southern California: it pays. Undergraduate > School of Philosophy > USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Now, I won’t go so far as to call this fact … Continue reading
Not Safe for Funding: The N.S.F. and the Economics of Science : The New Yorker
Aside from the inherent interest of all things having to do with NSF merit review … what, that’s not just us CSID folks, is it? … anyway, there’s also some really interesting stuff about what motivates scientists in this article. … Continue reading
Scholars Sound the Alert From the ‘Dark Side’ of Tech Innovation – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Academics talking amongst themselves? Scholars Sound the Alert From the ‘Dark Side’ of Tech Innovation – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education.
What Dancy’s Late Late Show appearance has to say about the philosopher’s disappearance | Andrew Taggart
Dr. Andrew J. Taggart, Philosophical Counselor, considers the role of the public philosopher and gives a shout out to our efforts here at CSID. On April 1, 2010, the professional philosopher Jonathan Dancy, who happens to be the father-in-law of … Continue reading
Communities of Integration Workshop – Field Philosophy
I’m very pleased to be attending the upcoming workshop at Arizona State on “Communities of Integration” at the invitation of Erik Fisher of STIR fame. You can get a sneak peak at the developing website, including our contribution on Field … Continue reading
The impact imperative can be better understood through the opportunities and contraints of feminist scholarship | Impact of Social Sciences
Feminist researchers are motivated to undertake impact activities because of their feminism. We want to change, as well as observe, the world. via The impact imperative can be better understood through the opportunities and contraints of feminist scholarship | Impact … Continue reading
Holdren Attacks House Bill, Defends NSF’s Grant Selection Process – ScienceInsider
Holdren Attacks House Bill, Defends NSF’s Grant Selection Process – ScienceInsider.
The Document: an Open Letter From San Jose State U.’s Philosophy Department – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education
This is a must read. The Document: an Open Letter From San Jose State U.’s Philosophy Department – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The ‘Broader Impacts’ of Sequestration on Science
CSID Director Bob Frodeman has some suggestions about the interconnection of research & society in post-austerity world. Now that we’ve been driven off the “fiscal cliff,” perhaps we should look around and assess the results. It turns out that sequestration … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Broader Impacts, Economics & STEM Research, Public Pedagogy, Public Philosophizing, Science and technology ramifications, STEM Policy, Sustainability, Risk Management, & Long-Term Security, TechnoScience & Technoscientism
Tagged austerity, broader impacts, economics, education, future of the university, knowledge, peer assessment, science, science & ethics, Sequestration, society, technology
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Is ROI the Right Way to Judge a College Education? – Administration – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Well, no, no it isn’t. Here’s why: Is ROI the Right Way to Judge a College Education? – Administration – The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Posted in Accountability, Future of the University, Metrics
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NSF Peer Review Under Scrutiny by House Science Panel – ScienceInsider
John Holdren to Science House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology: “I think it’s a dangerous thing for Congress, or anybody else, to be trying to specify in detail what types of fundamental research NSF should be funding.” NSF Peer … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Broader Impacts, Future of the University, NSF, Peer Review, STEM Policy
Tagged Holdren
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Academics don’t let themselves be free – Opinion – Al Jazeera English
@alicebell has something to say to us academics: Fellow academics, if you really want to stand up for your special forms of freedoms you need to recognise the role you already play in the systems that curtail them and reflect … Continue reading
A Radical Anthropologist Finds Himself in Academic ‘Exile’ – Faculty – The Chronicle of Higher Education
This article is worth a read regarding the current state of the academic job market, as well as the current climate within the Academy generally: A Radical Anthropologist Finds Himself in Academic ‘Exile’ – Faculty – The Chronicle of Higher … Continue reading
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The University Is in Real Trouble, Folks
This is news to no one who’s been paying attention, of course. But this morning I read two articles that highlight some of the difficulties universities are facing today. The first was from Al Jazeera, which seems to be on … Continue reading
Nature Special on The future of publishing: “A new page”.
Nature Special on The future of publishing: “A new page”..
Posted in Basic News, Future of the University, Libraries, Metrics, Open Access
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Thesis Hatement – Slate Magazine
Fair warning from: Rebecca Schuman – Slate Magazine. A guy came up to me in a coffee shop the other day as I was grading papers. He started up a conversation (not like I was busy or anything), asking me … Continue reading
Everything you ever wanted to know about altmetrics? Bulletin April/May 2013
Well, probably not. But it’s a start! Very informative special issue on altmetrics here, guest edited by Heather Piwowar: Bulletin April/May 2013.
Who Killed the PrePrint, and Could It Make a Return? | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network
A very interesting piece written on preprints here: Who Killed the PrePrint, and Could It Make a Return? | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network. Preprints are essentially working papers that are ‘published’ in order to solicit feedback prior to … Continue reading
Professorial pay rises twice as fast as rest | News | Times Higher Education
Professorial pay rises twice as fast as rest | News | Times Higher Education. This is an interesting piece on what at first glance may seem possible unintended consequences of the REF (the UK’s Research Excellence Framework, which is used … Continue reading
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Tagged Neoliberalism, REF
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Open Access: Getting Things Right | Ernesto Priego
Open Access: Getting Things Right | Ernesto Priego.
The price of innovation – thoughts from Beyond the PDF | Impact of Social Sciences
The price of innovation – thoughts from Beyond the PDF | Impact of Social Sciences.
Broader Impacts of the Fact that NASA Suspends All Education and Public Outreach Update – NASA Watch
Effective immediately, all education and public outreach activities should be suspended, pending further review. In terms of scope, this includes all public engagement and outreach events, programs, activities, and products developed and implemented by Headquarters, Mission Directorates, and Centers across … Continue reading
U. of California faculty union says MOOCs undermine professors’ intellectual property | Inside Higher Ed
What’s really interesting to me about this article is that the issue of competing interests of faculty as individuals and as a collective is raised, but not really explored. We need an account of something like group autonomy. U. of … Continue reading
Open Access, the Impact Agenda and resistance to the neoliberal paradigm | Impact of Social Sciences
Yesterday’s post introduced the context of neoliberalism as the backdrop of change in higher education. Here Martin Eve provides further clarification of the neoliberal context, linking the impact agenda under the Research Excellence Framework as a key trait of a privatised … Continue reading