Since haphazard amputation is not a leadership strategy, it is time to start looking at alternatives to cutting six departments that made impressive cases to the APC and the larger university community. Once again, thanks to the Statistics department for… Read moreAlternatives to Department Cuts

This past week marked the end of the first phase of the program cut process, with the final four departments on the chopping block having their hearings. For our version of the Big Red Wrap-up, we are sharing how to… Read moreBig Red APC Wrap-Up

Susan VanderPlas, Associate Professor of Statistics and 2025 NSF Career Award Winner, shares her BOR comments. Hi, my name is Susan VanderPlas. I’m an associate professor in the Statistics Department, and I’ve been at UNL since 2020. I teach statistical… Read moreFailing Statistics

Beth Niehaus, UNL AAUP Chapter Member-at-Large, spoke at the NU Board of Regents meeting on Friday, October 3rd. She spoke about the importance of values to institutions of higher education and the distrust that follows when leaders overlook their duty… Read moreMetrics over Mission?

I have always loved roading tripping with my colleagues, especially for field work. Today’s road trip was for some less enjoyable reasons, but the company was still excellent. Members of programs identified for cuts and UNL AAUP members turned out… Read moreAAUP Road Trip to BOR

I want to thank our AAUP members who attended today’s APC meetings to stand in solidarity with faculty. Our presence was appreciated by faculty on both sides of this process. And my very empty cup was a little fuller for… Read moreShowing Up

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