@NewYorker #highered articles to read while #archives are free HT @Voxdotcom

Discovered on Twitter via @womeninhighered, this Vox article (shared to Precarious Faculty on Facebook, and thus back to @precariousfac on Twitter) picked 12 education articles (see link below). Below are libby@vox.com's higher education selections: Louis Menard (2011); Malcolm Gladwell (2011); Jill Lepore (2014); Ken Auletta (2012); and Hanna Rosin (2005)

All due respect to the higher ed mission and blogging it, the best part is learning about the New Yorker's free summer archives...

CIHE | The Boston College Center for International #HigherEd

…aka @BB_CIHE—because #WeAreAllInThisTogether—defines its mission to be advancing knowledge about the complex realities of higher education in the contemporary world…more about

Issue 74, Winter 2014

International Issues

• The Need for Research and Training for the Higher Education Enterprise - The Shanghai Statement
• Research Universities in Developing and Middle-Income Countries - Karen MacGregor
• The Abdication of Thinking Capacity in International Higher Education - Philip G. Altbach
• Higher Education in Post-Conflict Conditions - Iván F. Pacheco and Ane Turner Johnson

The Glorious Future

Can't beat University Diaries on this one so I'll just share, even if it's 2nd hand sharing of shared links (3rd hand by the time tweeted @NewFacMajority and auto-posted to NFM's Facebook page. So be. What matters is the sharing and the reading.

The Glorious Future: "William Deresiewicz, in The Nation, talks about the future of university education where nearly all [proposed university reforms] involve technology to drive efficiency."

Point/Counterpoint: from there UD goes on to include: Update: From Robert Nozick’s obituary in the Harvard Gazette, "Nozick’s teaching followed the same lively, unorthodox, heterogeneous pattern as his writing. With one exception, he never taught the same course twice."

rereading the university

Higher ed as a beached whale, cartoon by Peter Nicholson in The Australian

More annotated links about highered topics ~ colleges, curricula, students, reform, change and so on ~ from Omnivore, the Book Forum blog: rereading the university