Laconismos
Educación
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Bad Interview, Worse Argument
Ten scholars from Vanderbilt and WashU in St. Louis published a report on the state of humanities scholarship. Anthropology came out worst. Days later, the president of a professional association defended their work, poorly. A reporter wrote an article about it and an honest debate got sidetracked.
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El marco invisible
¿Y si la primera pregunta en una reorganización no fuera “qué cambia en el organigrama”, sino “qué mensaje envía esta decisión sobre lo que realmente valoramos”? Como la pregunta que otras preguntas tienen que responder antes de que cualquier decisión se anuncie.
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Right about the fire, wrong about the extinguisher
Jeffrey Selingo has spent decades watching the business of higher education from closer than most of us ever get, and when he says the underlying model is breaking, that’s someone who’s been inside the machinery telling you what he sees. I don’t have that vantage point — just a few honest questions from someone who’s…
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The leadership institute that never needed an AI session
In June 2013, I spent a week in Evanston, Illinois learning about technology and leadership. None of the sessions focus ed on a specific technology. One of the lessons was to make defensible decisions about sustaining or disruptive innovation, not to assume disruption was the only defensible choice.
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Four Girders: The Book
After more than thirty years in higher education, most of them helping students — across a desk, in a classroom, and at my own kitchen table — I’ve written a book, and I’ve made it free. It’s called The Four Girders Framework: Becoming a Successful Learner in the AI Era. It isn’t a study-skills textbook.…
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Mi libro
La inteligencia artificial se sienta hoy junto a los estudiantes, y aunque los fundamentos del aprendizaje no han cambiado, el terreno sí. De un blog que arrancaba y se detenía nació un libro completo: The Four Girders Framework: Becoming a Successful Learner in the AI Era. Los fundamentos de siempre, ahora frente a los nuevos…
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Sanitized History
The Trump administration has embarked on a campaign to rewrite American history. The aim is a whitewashed version of the past that glorifies American exceptionalism while discarding well-established facts, critical thinking, and intellectual honesty. This isn’t just rhetoric—it is an assault on the nation’s capacity to reflect, learn, and grow.
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Prior Restraint
The federal government’s decision to shut down DEI initiatives under the guise of legality and so-called divisiveness argument is nothing more than prior restraint—a well-known and heavily frowned-upon form of censorship. And as history has shown us, prior restraint is not just a direct violation of the First Amendment, but one of the biggest threats…
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Merit and fairness
The new U.S. government administration ordered the dismantling of all federal DEI programs under the argument that such programs are discriminatory and undermine fairness. The government claims they want to implement a purely merit-based system. This view misunderstands the role of access and achievement programs and the structural inequities they aim to address and favors…
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A new journey
This week I say goodbye to my job of 14+ years to start a new professional journey (CV has the details). Throughout the many years serving students, I’ve had the privilege of crossing paths with many amazing individuals. One of those happened to be my “boss” of many years, Bruce Weaver. Rarely you cross paths…