DECEMBER 8, 2022 | ALEX USHER The Politics of Student Loan Debt I am sure most of my readers are aware of the Biden Administration’s plans to forgive student loans. However, what may have gone under the radar is the way the current administration is staking a lot of...
EEUU: Contexto político de la educación superior
Blue versus red states: Higher education policy-making in the US John Aubrey Douglass 21 January 2023 The midterm elections in the United States brought a sort of victory for President Joe Biden and the Democrats, including the retention of a slim majority in the...
USA: Las nuevas condiciones postpandemia de la economía política universitaria
The Shrinking of Higher Ed In the past, colleges grew their way out of enrollment crises. This time looks different. By Karin Fischer, AUGUST 12, 2022 Nearly 1.3 million students have disappeared from American colleges during the Covid-19 pandemic, raising...
Libertad académica en America Latina y EEUU
Is Academic Freedom a Human Right? In Mexico, a conference raises provocative questions about politics and the university By Jeffrey Aaron Snyder JANUARY 11, 2023 Is academic freedom a basic human right? This was just one of many provocative questions I had...
Neoliberalismo y cultura woke
Citadels of Neoliberalism or Bastions of Wokism? What elite higher ed’s critics on both the left and the right get wrong. By David A. Bell, professor of history at Princeton University. DECEMBER 9, 2022 No one seems to like America’s elite universities these days,...
Chomsky sobre educación
Noam Chomsky: “Los intentos de poner la educación superior al servicio del sector privado toman formas casi cómicas” El lingüista señaló que "las tendencias educativas impulsadas por el mercado son muy reales y dañinas. Deberían, creo, ser consideradas como parte del...
Escuelas de derecho de Yale y Harvard se retiran de U.S. News Rankings
Yale and Harvard Law Schools Withdraw From the U.S. News Rankings Citing flaws in the way the ratings are determined, the schools said they will stop participating, breaking away from the rankings industry. By Anemona Hartocollis Nov. 16, 2022 Sign Up for the...
Huelga que cimbra a la Universidad de California
UNIVERSIDAD DE CALIFORNIA Pobreza en el Olimpo académico de EE UU: la huelga que cimbra a la Universidad de California Cerca de 50.000 trabajadores académicos suman más de 10 días de protestas a la espera de una subida de salarios y mejora de condiciones en una decena...
EEUU: La batalla judicial en torno a politicas de discriminación positiva
Race-conscious university admissions hang by a legal thread Nathan M Greenfield 02 November 2022 Oral questions posed this week by Republican-appointed justices of the Supreme Court of the United States suggest that five of the nine members of the bench are ready to...
Impacto de la pandemia en el aprendizaje de las matemáticas en EEUU
Math Scores Fell in Nearly Every State, and Reading Dipped on National Exam The results, from what is known as the nation’s report card, offer the most definitive picture yet of the pandemic’s devastating impact on students. By Sarah Mervosh and Ashley Wu Oct. 24,...
Repensar los incentivos, las métricas y la financiación en la educación superior global
A medida que se intensifican las presiones financieras, las universidades responden cada vez más a clasificaciones y...
Relatos sobre la Universidad y las disputas por el sentido de la institución
Presentación empleada para la conferencia en la UV: ver aquí : JJB_UValparaiso_28072026_env [PDF] Mi conferencia...
Decanatura, Inteligencia Artificial y transformaciones de la Universidad
La universidad es uno de los últimos territorios públicos que resisten la lógica de la plataforma. Un espacio...
Entrevista sobre coyuntura política con Magdalena Olea
José Joaquín Brunner: «Tenemos una oposición que no tiene ninguna capacidad de ofrecer un proyecto de gobernabilidad»...