Today’s post is a proposal that has been circulating UNL’s College of Arts and Sciences, authored by Ken Bloom. Dr. Bloom is the Willa Cather Professor and Chair in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and a former member of… Read moreAn alternative vision for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

In my last post, I mentioned how incomplete Academic Analytics (AA) is at capturing every faculty member’s productivity. In this post, I’m going to be discussing the problems with how the AA data is being used by administrators in identifying… Read moreYou Can’t Do that With Statistics

Last week was week 5, which means I am grading the hardest assignment in my Improvement Science course, the problem of practice paper. For this assignment, my EdD students must identify their organization’s goals and the data that demonstrates their… Read moreShow Me the Evidence

The UNL Faculty Senate adopted a resolution at its Sept. 2 meeting asking university administrators to explain the program cuts they are expected to propose in the week of Sept. 8. The university needs to make an additional $27.5 million… Read moreFaculty Senate seeks rationales for coming budget cuts

On Thursday morning, EVC Button emphasized to me and my colleagues that the proposal to eliminate our department was an evidence-based decision. I imagine he also emphasized this to the departments of Statistics, Community and Regional Planning, Earth and Atmospheric… Read moreSolidarity & Transparency

Last week, for the first time in my 10 years at UNL, I attended the state of the University address. In my role as the UNL AAUP chapter president, I felt it was important to bear witness on behalf of… Read moreOn the Humanites, Social Science, and Education: Or how UNL is headed towards being a truly impoverished university