Author Archives: Margaret Galvan

About Margaret Galvan

Margaret Galvan is pursuing a PhD in English and a film studies certificate at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She has taught at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Borough of Manhattan Community College and serves as one of the coordinators of OpenCUNY, the student organized, open-source, social media for the Graduate Center community. Her research focuses on the representation of women's bodies in twentieth and twenty-first century graphic, filmic, and text narratives.

Reading on Governance in higher education

Here are the PDFs for the reading assignments for next week. The reading questions will primarily be the responsibility of Group#2, but everyone is expected to come ready to discuss the readings. Submit any reading questions (for the responsible group or anyone else who has them) to me by email.

Topics for 3/20/13: University Governance, Administrators, boards and accreditors; Shared governance; the Faculty as professionals;  tenure; academic freedom

1. Eckel, P.D. and Kezar, A. (2011) Presidents leading: The dynamics and complexities of campus leadership, ch. 11 in in P.G. Altbach, P.J. Gumport, and R.O. Berdahl, American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. altbach ch 11

2. Harcleroad, F.F. and Eaton, J.S. (2011) The hidden hand: External constituencies and their impact. Ch. 8 in P.G. Altbach, P.J. Gumport, and R.O. Berdahl, American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. altbach ch 8

3. Hendrickson, R. M., Lane, J.E., Harris, J.T., and Dorman, R. H. (2013). Principles of Academic Leadership, ch. 1 in Academic Leadership and Governance of Higher Education. Sterling, VA: Stylus. Hendrickson ch1

4. Hendrickson, R. M., Lane, J.E., Harris, J.T., and Dorman, R. H. (2013). The faculty, ch. 13 in Academic Leadership and Governance of Higher Education. Sterling, VA: Stylus.
Hendrickson ch. 13

5. Kaminer, A. (2013) NYU’s global leader is tested by faculty at home, New York Times, 3/10/13, url:   http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/nyregion/john-sexton-is-tested-by-nyu-faculty.html?emc=eta1 and N.Y.U.’s Global Leader Is Tested by Faculty at Home – NYTimes

6.  Schmidtlein, F.A. and Berdahl, R.O. (2011) Autonomy and accountability: Who controls academe?. Ch 3 in P.G. Altbach, P.J. Gumport, and R.O. Berdahl, American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. altbach ch3

7. (optional but a good read and continues our theme of pilloring Harvard) Traub, J. (2003) Harvard Radical, The New York Times Magazine, Aug. 24. Harvard Radical – New York Times (same guy who wrote City on a Hill.

Recent News

From Professor Hainline:

This editorial—The Trouble With Online College, NYT—stimulated the responses below:

On popular view of HE in the US:
Americans Are Proud of U.S. Colleges but Not of Their Direction, The Chronicle

On the problems of HE and need for change:
From Dean Kirschner: Innovations in Higher Education? Hah!, The Chronicle
Responses to the Kirschner article on change in HE:
The Rut We’re In, The Chronicle

On the future of Higher Ed by a popular writer on HE:
Higher Education’s Future: Discuss!, NYT

On cheating scandal at Harvard:
Harvard Forced Dozens to Leave in Cheating Scandal, NYT

Who gets to go to college/diversity issues:
Poor Students Struggle as Class Plays a Greater Role in Success, NYT

Two on the academic freedom issue at BC:
Academic Freedom Vindicated in Brooklyn, NYT
Academic Freedom in Brooklyn: Part Two, NYT

Administration of HE:

On MOOCs and technology in HE:

Today’s Times is full of HE articles, some about CUNY

From Professor Hainline:

I will eventually learn how to put these on the WordPress Blog, but much action in today’s Times and related posts on issues in higher education relevant to our discussions:

1.      Article about the pro-Palestinian speakers on the BC campus: Q: why is academic freedom a value on college campuses? Whose is entitled to it? Faculty? Students? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/nyregion/appearance-by-bds-at-brooklyn-college-spurs-protest.html?emc=eta1

2.      Article about resignation of the President of Medgar Evers, embattled pretty much since he came to the school, and the role of the faculty in no-confidence votes (the President of NYU has just had one about various faculty matters, including the desire to build a huge building complex in Greenwich Village and his financial support of various International campuses of NYU – but no link for that today): http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/nyregion/medgar-evers-college-president-resigns.html?emc=eta1

3.      An article about declining values of university and college endowments (Harvard’s is $30 billion), which points to the relationship between the resources for higher education and the larger financial markets in which institutions of HE invest:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/education/study-confirms-drop-in-college-endowment-returns.html?emc=eta1

4.      An op-ed piece about a person who got a college degree for less than $10K  (question is why people seem to think an N of 1 is any sort of argument; maybe the 10K degree missed something, but this is actually pretty common as a reasoning tool in arguments): http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/opinion/my-valuable-cheap-college-degree.html?emc=eta1

5.      Some eposts (not from today) on an article on need blind admissions and a letter form the President of Vassar about the impact of need blind admissions and the impacts of admissions policies on shifting financial aid from need to merit (which came up in our discussion of the other day): http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/01/education/elite-smaller-colleges-struggle-to-cover-financial-aid.htmland http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/opinion/need-blind-admissions.html?emc=eta1

6.      A post (also not from today, but relevant to the question of mission differentiation at different institutions we will be covering soon) from a former librarian at Yale about how the need for faculty to do research and scholarship affects UG tuition:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/07/opinion/why-college-costs-so-much.html?emc=eta1

Sign up for Higher Education Newsletters

For your Seminar 4 class, you will need to keep abreast of current events in higher education. Professor Hainline requests that you sign up to receive the following newsletters in your email inbox.

1. Inside Higher Ed: Sign up for the “Daily News Update” here.

2. The Chronicle of Higher Education: Sign up for the “Daily Academe” newsletter here.

3. The New York Times: If you do not have a login for The New York Times, create one here; you only need to provide your email and create a password. Once you register and are logged in to the site—you should see your email login at the top right-hand corner of the site—you will then create two news alerts here.

NYT Keyword Alert

Click the “Create News Alert” link, then click the “Keyword Alert” button under News Alert. In the first box under “Step 1: Define Your Alert,” type in higher education as seen in the accompanying screenshot. You can select your preferences in steps 2 and 3. After previewing, save your alert and repeat the process and create a keyword alert for “college.”

Course Readings (through 3/13)

Readings for 3/13, with links to PDF downloads
Note from Professor Hainline: Prof. Steven Brier will be visiting our class on March 13 to talk about the history of CUNY. The first reading he has suggested you do (chapters from Traub’s A City on the Hill. The others (Landa, Gunderson, Biondi) are my suggestions, but read the Traub first please. Everyone should develop questions for Dr. Brier, so there is no separate team assignment for next week. Email if you have questions.

  • Traub, City on a Hill (pdf)
  • Biondi, “Brooklyn College Belongs to Us” (pdf)
  • Gunderson, “The Struggle for CUNY: A History of the CUNY Student Movement 1969-1999” (pdf)
  • Landa, “The Birth of a Modern University” (pdf)

Readings for 3/6, with links to PDF downloads

  • Lagemann, Chapter 1 (pdf)
  • Marcus, Chapter 2 (pdf)
  • Thelin, Intro, Chapter 8 (pdf)
  • Christensen, Chapters 5, 7, 9, 11 (pdf)

Readings for 2/27, with links to PDF downloads

    Carnegie classification of institutions of higher education.

  • Carnegie data (pdf)
  • IHE Carnegie (pdf)
  • Rethink Carnegie (pdf)
    College and university mission statements, with examples from Macaulay, BC and CUNY.

  • Mission and Vision Statements (pdf)
  • Mission Analysis (pdf)
  • Macaulay Mission (pdf)
  • Brooklyn College Strategic Plan (pdf)
  • CUNY Master Plan (pdf)

Notes: These readings are to be completed before the first class session on Wed., 1/30. You need to be logged into The Chronicle through Brooklyn College (access the portal here) to access the third reading.

a. Committee for Economic Development (2005) Cracks in the Education Pipeline: A Business Leader’s Guide to Higher Education Reform, report by Committee on Higher Education Reform of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, downloaded 1/18/13 from http://www.highereducation.org/reports/ced/ced.pdf

b. Immerwahr, J. and Johnson, J. (2010) Squeeze Play 2010: Continued Public Anxiety on Cost, Harsher Judgments on How Colleges are Run, report prepared by Public Agenda for The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, downloaded 1/18/13 from: http://www.highereducation.org/reports/squeeze_play_10/index.shtml

c. Levine, A. E. (2000) The future of colleges: 9 inevitable changes. The Chronicle of Higher Education, downloaded 9/7/2003 from: http://chronicle.com/article/The-Future-of-Colleges-9/10560/