Tag: higher education
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Too Many Deans Spoil the Broth: How Administrative Bloat Is Quietly Undermining Teaching and Research
Administrative bloat is getting out of hand. Over the past decade, I’ve watched job titles multiply like bacteria in a petri dish: Associate Dean of This, Vice Provost of That, Senior Executive Director of Strategic Alignment and Synergy (okay, slight exaggeration—but not by much). Meanwhile, class sizes creep upward, faculty searches get “paused,” and research…
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AI in Higher Education Isn’t the Problem. Our Incentives Are.
Almost all students use AI [source]. Probably, by the time many of you are reading this post, it might be safe to remove the word ‘almost.’ AI in higher education is a thing. In the past few years, generative artificial intelligence has rapidly transformed the landscape of higher education, and it has stirred profound anxiety…
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Graduate School Is a Career Choice, Not an Achievement
For many students, graduate school feels like the next obvious step. You did well in college. People told you you’re “good at school.” You’re not quite sure what you want to do next—but graduate school sounds productive, respectable, and safe. That’s exactly why this needs to be said clearly: Graduate school is not an achievement.…
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Faculty Zoom Interview: Tips and Know-Hows – Part 2
Here are more Zoom interview tips following the previous post. This time, more on techniques and setup that you can improve easily. Your Zoom Interview Setup Is Part of the Evaluation (Whether You Like It or Not) This is not about aesthetics. It’s about friction. Even though it is not part of the rubric, committees…
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Academic Publishing Profits from Free Labor…and We Call It Productivity
This post examines how the academic publishing business model relies on unpaid academic labor, public funding, and prestige-based incentives, and how common productivity metrics in academia quietly reinforce that system. Researchers write the articles.Academics review the articles.Academics edit the journals.Universities pay the salaries.Libraries pay the subscriptions. Yet academic publishers continue to generate billions in profit.…