South Carolina State University’s governing board voted on Tuesday to give its president, Andrew Hugine Jr., the boot, Charles Huckabee reports on The Chronicle’s News Blog. Read more.
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11 Responses to President Gets the Boot
joelcairo - April 4, 2012 at 6:51 am
Just curious: Are courses capped? That is, if the enrollment cap is 30 and 30 students from the home campus enroll, will the course then be closed to enrollment from other campuses? If not, how does grading work? If the cap increases, won’t the professor have more grading to do?
mark_at_teac - April 4, 2012 at 7:45 am
Small colleges also often have solitary faculty members providing service courses, but no major in their discipline. Collaborations like the one described here could allow such individuals to participate with colleagues across a consortium in teaching a wider range of courses, etc.
jselingo - April 4, 2012 at 7:51 am
Yes, the courses are capped so they wouldn’t be any larger as a group then they would have been on an individual campus.
cbres - April 4, 2012 at 10:18 am
This is Carol Bresnahan – it’s essential to cap the courses if we want to retain the small-college feel.
jennoh2 - April 4, 2012 at 10:26 am
Our liberal arts institution just began talks on offering online courses. Thus far it does not seem to be embraced by faculty members. I think a good solution for small institututions that want to get their “feet wet” in online education is to join a consortium of institututions offering language and upper level classes. I see it more of a safer bet that will experience less resistance.
cmorrissey - April 4, 2012 at 10:37 am
Cost reductions leading to lower tuition?–the shared courses will not solve the resolve “the precarious fate” of these instituions. Current four year programs can be easily delivered in three years as a starter.
chronanon - April 4, 2012 at 12:02 pm
“Current four year programs can be easily delivered in three years”
That’s great news! You will, of course, give us the details on *how* we can easily do that, right?
chronanon - April 4, 2012 at 12:06 pm
Rhodes has taught Arabic since at least 1987.
darccity - April 4, 2012 at 6:23 pm
The big test is if colleges can succeed in dropping entire programs in favor another consortium member’s clearly superior department. Traditionally, good programs heavily subsidize bad ones. That’s because programs with weak, arrogant, boring, lazy, or behind-the-times faculty drive away students from their classes.
The low enrollments eventually result via faculty attrition, but that may take decades. In the meantime, incentives from this perverse cross-subsidization business model force the hi-demand and strong teaching programs to carry the tiny classes of weak programs. This phenomenon is akin to a nation with protect import barriers. With the equivalent of free trade, bad faculty will have to clean up their act to compete for students against quality programs elsewhere in the consortium or else be exposed as the freeloaders they are.
barbarawright - April 7, 2012 at 9:27 pm
This sounds like a great idea. But rigor and quality control? I was sorry not to see any discussion of cross-institutional learning outcomes, standard setting, and assessment.
kyushumntsphil - April 9, 2012 at 9:22 am
Yes, Barbara — and here’s one quality control: the obligation that profs and students quote more.
Students evaluations, once shed of their current consumer-satisfaction conceits, can ask all to cite profs who best model course-content-related references — to actual students in the course, to parallel examples in other parts of home campuses, and to wider cultural sources.
Students who enthuse most about profs and peers who best model breadth and depth of connection will automatically show this one burgeoning quality: literacy, with all its newly-infused humanity.