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Dr. Kathleen Hellen is a poet and the author of The Girl Who Loved Mothra (Finishing Line Press, 2010). Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and on WYPR’s “The Signal.” Her awards include grants from the Maryland State Arts Council and Baltimore Arts and Humanities. She is senior editor for The Baltimore [...]
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There was an error in the May 2011 issue which must be corrected. The University of Baltimore’s Library’s name is Langsdale, not Langston. Was Langston Hughes on the mind of the FV staff member who mistyped? (If so, perhaps it’s not the worst of mistakes!) Apologies to the UB folks.
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For Preventing Our Children From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public In a New York Times (16 July 2011) article by Charles M. Blow, the fastest growing occupations in the USA listed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics are registered nurses, home health aides, customer [...]
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By Bill Hanna, Editor Urban Studies and Planning, UMCP About two miles south of the College Park campus is a town called Hyattsville. It’s on the way between Baltimore and D.C. for those working and/or living north of the D.C. metro area. In the past few years, there has been an effort to gentrify it [...]
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By Rick Kohn, Animal Science, UMCP Have you invented a process, machine or composition of matter that might have commercial value? Has your research crossed into an area where it could be commercially valuable but may not be fundable by grant programs? If so, you may have a desire to develop patent rights to leverage [...]
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Federal figures, as of 2009, indicate that 45% of Maryland’s residents in the 25-34 age range have graduated from a four-year college. That’s a bit above the national average, but far below the national goal of 58%-60%. “Right now we’ve got an education system that works like a funnel when we need it to work [...]
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By Bill Hanna, Editor Urban Studies and Planning, UMCP There is not an abundance of good news about the educational systems in the United States. A report by the Carnegie Foundation’s Review, “Advancing Adolescent Literacy: The Cornerstone of School Reform” (2010), offers these less-than-cheerful comments (with a too-well-known message): “During the last twenty years, the [...]
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By Peter Wolfe, Mathematics, UMCP What do the University of Maryland and the United States of America have in common? Well, they are both failing institutions and the reasons for these failures are quite similar. The American public wants its government services but doesn’t want to pay for them. So the politicians, whose livelihoods depends [...]
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Tenure Tenure is nice! It lets one plan for the long-term rather than keeping one’s suitcase packed just in case. And one can pursue a scholarly passion that might not perfectly fit the agenda of one’s academic superordinates. Alas, there are fewer and fewer jobs with tenure or on tenure tracks. Can we see the [...]
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Council of University System Faculty Many readers may not know that faculty members have representatives at the System level. But there is a “Council of University System Faculty,” and its stated purpose (from Article I, section 1 of the CUSF Constitution) is to advise and report “regularly to the Board of Regents. Its responsibility will [...]
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Ranking Games The validity of university or program rankings is highly suspect. But just like predicting outcomes in “March Madness,” it does provide a bit of entertainment – and high blood pressure. A recent U.S. News ranking is of law schools. We find that for $45k or more, one can go to the top-ranked schools, [...]
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THE OTHERS IN “HIGHER” EDUCATION1 Bill Hanna, Editor Urban Studies and Planning, UMCP Enrollments in community colleges and for-profit colleges are soaring, and even President Obama speaks favorably about the role of community colleges in our country’s education. University budgets are being capped or cut in many states, including Maryland, and horror of horrors, faculty [...]
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The Washington Post Tells Us… Tells us how to get “higher ed in shape” (Washington Post Magazine, 20 February 2011). The author recommends measuring students’ learning, end merit student aid, standardize the three-year bachelor’s degree, revive the core curriculum, bring back homework, tie public funds to finishing college, cap athletic subsidies, and stop re-teaching high [...]
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Six-Year Graduation Rates Compiled and written by Bill Hanna, Editor An indicator deemed of importance within higher education circles is the six-year graduation rate. That is, what percent of students graduate from the university within six years. Within the Maryland System, a second indicator is added: the percent of graduates from within the System. For [...]
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MORE RATINGS The Faculty Voice staff and Board members don’t take ratings very seriously. First, the rating depends on the variables, which are often debatable. And second, there’s often a lag time of many years before the rating adjusts to the reality. However, a rating is like a baseball box score: it has some short-term [...]
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Two Poems By Bill Hanna ACADEMIC MEETINGS All the faculty meetings In our academy of brains Lead to dumbing down our minds And to shackling with pains. Yes, there are decisions About what we should next do And when we next should do them Such as a colleague’s peer review. But most of the time [...]
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by Bill Hanna, Editor, Faculty Voice UMCP, Department of Urban Planning Οut of personal curiosity and commitment to the mission of Faculty Voice, I try as much as overload allows to keep up with news and data about higher education. My explorations do not leave me terribly optimistic. Maybe my mood is in part created [...]
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‘One of the hardest issues in swift journalism is informing users exactly what are the qualifications of that source. It’s hard to do that on the fly; you can infer what their point of view would be from knowing what their backgrounds are. That’s a very crucial issue going forward.’
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