Teaching in an Age of ‘Militant Apathy’ Immersive education offers a way to reach students. But can it ever become the norm? By Beth McMurtrie, FEBRUARY 15, 2023 It is a strange time to be an undergraduate. Life may feel apocalyptic, buffeted by climate crisis,...
EEUU: Docencia de pregrado en debate
Course Correction Students expect ‘total flexibility’ in the pandemic-era classroom. But is that really what they need? By Beckie Supiano FEBRUARY 13, 2023 For all the well-known frustrations of remote instruction, Mark A. Sarvary anticipated that moving back...
¿Sesgo político en la academia?
La derecha estadounidense gira contra la educación Desde el auge del trumpismo, los republicanos creen que los profesores universitarios enseñan propoganda liberal PAUL KRUGMAN 18 FEB 2023 - 05:45 CET Ron DeSantis, actualmente gobernador de Florida y aspirante a...
Meritocracia versus habitus
Behind the elite university’s ‘visage of meritocracy’ Nathan M Greenfield 01 February 2023 ,Far from being bastions of intellectual inquiry and meritocracy, in both Britain and the United States elite universities reproduce the ethnic, racial and class divisions...
ChatGDP: reacciones desde el mundo universitario
Sciences Po bans ChatGPT amid HE quality, integrity fears Karen MacGregor 03 February 2023 Leading French grande école Sciences Po has banned the use of ChatGPT, the new chatbot capable of instantly writing essays, that has sparked consternation in higher education...
Deuda estudiantil: plan Biden
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,...
La mesa técnica creada para el Sistema de Admisión Escolar (SAE)
Los nudos expuestos durante la mesa técnica creada para mejorar el Sistema de Admisión Escolar (SAE) Durante esta...
Política de acuerdos y sus múltiples consecuencias
Política de acuerdos y sus múltiples consecuencias La oposición constructiva de derechas logra llevar adelante una...
Crisis de salud mental en universidades británicas
Support from academics ‘can make student mental health worse’ Attempts by well-meaning scholars to help services...
Steven Brint sobre educación superior en EEUU de Trump
‘There Needs to Be a Rousing Defense of the Sector’ Steven Brint talks Trumpian dystopia, the administrator-activist...