May 1, 2009
More Noted Things
A Conversation:Mark C. Taylor,"End the University as We Know It," NYT, 26 April Marc Bousquet,"More Drivel From the New York Times," How the University Works, 26 April Tim Burke,"Taylor on the University," Easily Distracted, 27 April Erin O'Connor,"Six steps to a better higher ed," Critical Mass, 27 April Karl Steel,"Allow Me to Lodge A Complaint: Mark. C. Taylor on Destructuring the University," In the Middle, 27 April "Project-Based Education? A Response to Mark Taylor," Confessions of a Community College Dean, 28 April "Department and Punish," Michael Bérubé, 28 April "Re: Mark C. Taylor on ‘reforming higher education'," Ryan McCarl, 28 April ckelty,"Et tu Mark Taylor?" Savage Minds, 28 April "Shooting fish in a barrel," Historiann, 28 April Marc Bousquet,"May Day Meditation: Who Benefits From the Tuition Gold Rush?" The Valve, 29 April Jonathan Rees,"Who exactly encourages people to enroll in doctoral programs?" More or Less Bunk, 29 April Tim Burke,"The Road to Utopia," Easily Distracted, 30 April Stan Katz,"What Might Be Done?" Brainstorm, 30 April.
Tristram Hunt,"Feminist friend or foe?" Guardian, 29 April, draws on Hunt's The Frock-coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels.
Dwight Gardner,"The Mogul Who Built Corporate America," NYT, 28 April, reviews T. J. Stiles's The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Michelle Orange,"Not Easy Being Greene: Graham Greene's Letters," Nation, 15 April, reviews Richard Greene, ed., Graham Greene: A Life in Letters.