October, 2015

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California still not addressing the workforce gap - plus ca change

Changing Higher Education

Five years ago in a post , I described a thesis study by Lauren Cooper on potential solutions to the looming workforce gap in California. Her analysis was based primarily on projections of California workforce needs in 2025 made by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC). Dr Cooper's analysis of the CSU - level workforce shortfall suggested that CSU needed to open 12 new campuses by 2025 to meet needs - an unlikely solution to the problems given the finances of California.

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Reflections on Tenure in Canada vs Wisconsin

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This entry is available at Inside Higher Ed as well. ~~~~~~. In the context of some intense debates about tenure in the University of Wisconsin System, and at UW-Madison, I’ve been acquiring some interesting information and views about tenure and related governance matters in Canada vs Wisconsin. Reflections and data have been kindly provided by Canadian leaders representing faculty and university administrative bodies, both nationally and in select universities.

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Innovative and Engaging Communications in and Beyond the Academy

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Editor’s note: this guest entry has been kindly developed by Gisèle Yasmeen , Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Yasmeen raises a series of important issues in the build-up to a call for a “structured dialogue” on the nature and role of knowledge in society. ~~~~~. Innovative and Engaging Communications in and Beyond the Academy.

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MIT's self-disruption: an update

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In The future of MIT undergraduate education: a case study of disruption , I described two reports from MIT that laid out a stunning vision for the future of MIT undergraduate education. Among the suggestions of the reports are that education of the future will be unbundled and disaggregated, with online components enabling flexible time scales and location-independent participation.