I have promised about a dozen people that I have a list of reading for the work I attempt to do. That work is at the intersection of education, organizations, and inequality. It’s what I would call critical org theory, if I were so allowed. Basically, I argue that organizational characteristics — like their profitRead More “A Reading List (By Request)”
Crowdsourcing a New Syllabus: Teaching Contemporary Stratification
Along with speaking, writing, researching, consulting and mocking professional pundits that wear ascots, I also teach. I am very excited to be writing a syllabus for a stratification course, to be taught in the Spring. I took to Twitter earlier today to crowdsource some of the excellent sociology tools that have floated across my timelineRead More “Crowdsourcing a New Syllabus: Teaching Contemporary Stratification”
Twitter Tactics Talk at Emory’s Center for Injury Control
The regular readers know that I make a habit of posting powerpoints before a talk. I find it saves participants from copious note-taking. That makes for a more engaged room. [slideshare id=22973450&style=border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px&sc=no] Ecictt from Tressie McPhd In the presentation I mention several resources. They follow: #followanadult London School of Economics TwitterRead More “Twitter Tactics Talk at Emory’s Center for Injury Control”
A Woman In The CIA Read Porn And The Daily Beast Is On It!
This probably needs a PREAM warning. I do not really do public debates about feminism and organizational logics anymore for reasons, but I thought this story in The Daily Beast was an interesting chance for a very quick analysis. I thought it went without saying that the story was undeniably gross. It uncovers that AvrilRead More “A Woman In The CIA Read Porn And The Daily Beast Is On It!”
More on Building a Prestigious For-Profit
I continue to think through a theoretical framework to understand how prestige and for-profit colleges interact. The first post about that project got a significant amount of interaction. I appreciated it. Since then I have read, read some more, and done some thinking. I read across institutional, neo-institutional, macro structural theories of legitimacy and microRead More “More on Building a Prestigious For-Profit”
How To Work With Academics For Media Folks
I have had the good fortune to work on a topic that has some minimal appeal to popular media. I have done a little radio, a little print and a little TV, at this point. Along the way I have had some incredible experiences. However, I *am* a sociologist. It would be impossible for meRead More “How To Work With Academics For Media Folks”
Are All of Your Education Disruptors White?
The answer may be no* but it is the question that I would like to focus on for right now. The question came to mind today as I was thinking through my position on higher education innovation and access. Both are wrapped up in language of justice, equality, and fairness — all things about whichRead More “Are All of Your Education Disruptors White?”
The Highered Disruption Playlist
I’m not a cultural studies person, at all. I don’t have the chops, at all. I envy people like the brilliant Zandria Robinson who makes it look like baking an EZ Oven cake, but I digress. I woke up this morning to more MOOC news. In the NY Times, no less. That’s the equivalent ofRead More “The Highered Disruption Playlist”
“We’re Not Phoenix” Prestige, MOOCs, Etc.
In a recent talk at UC-Irvine I mentioned that MOOC purveyors had learned lessons from the trajectory of for-profit higher education. I made a passing mention to 2tor CEO saying they would not have to build prestige; they’d borrow it instead. I thought this quote also sums up that point nicely: “We’re not Phoenix,” insistsRead More ““We’re Not Phoenix” Prestige, MOOCs, Etc.”
Profit, Poverty, and Policy: Going Back to California
I have a hankering for tying credentials to labor market processes and social policy. There, I said it. The cat is out of the bag. I’m just crazy enough to try to update a 50 year old literature on status competition and institutionalism with a focus on inequality. In a sign that I may, indeed,Read More “Profit, Poverty, and Policy: Going Back to California”