I think open access, peer-reviewed journals are the way to go. I worry about self-publishing on places academia(dot)edu, specifically about quality and the ability to trust the work enough to build on it or use it as a citation. I think for peer-review journals to be available open access, they will all have to abandon print formats and switch to online online. And I think they will need to be supported by colleges and universities. I think Journal of Career and Technical Education is a good model.

I’m so glad you posted about this. My students have been talking about it. My peers have been talking about it. It has a lot of implications, including the role of the university to create save spaces for students. I agree that the existence of these pictures should not be surprising. The politicians’ responses have, in my opinion, been inadequate. Instead of admitting to what they did and apologizing, they have been trying to explain it away. We have all done things we aren’t proud of and most of us have done things that were unenlightened. But we should be able to explain how our life and college experiences have taught us and demonstrated to us the errors of our ways. Trying to blow it off as “a sign of the times” is not acceptable. Individuals need to demonstrate that they have grown and changed as individuals, and I agree that colleges should facilitate and nourish that personal growth.

Hi. I’m glad you brought up that many mission statements seem to be filled with buzzwords. The more blog posts I read the more they seem to run together and words like “leadership” and “development” seem to run together and lose meaning. In light of that, I kind of appreciated the technical college’s mission statement in is practicality and implication that education itself can “advance communities.”