If you've had a chance to read the emails among leaders of the UVa Board of Visitors, you'll know that spin control was on their minds early on. That, and all those thoughtful articles in the Wall Street Journal and Wired regarding online education. (It is curious to think that Southern New Hampshire University and its online strategy struck UVa Board members as a nice template for the school's future.)
But there is other UVa-related material worth reading today as well, including a delicious parody of the Declaration of Independence by Duke sociologist Kieran Healy, a nice essay by David Karpf at HuffPost and a thoughtful meditation on how this battle isn't between corporate values and university values…but rather between two competing corporate models of education.
H/T to Leiter and Lister.
Thanks for this coverage, Dan. Looks like things may be reset next Tuesday. That is my hope for everyone in the UVA community.
Here's a link to the Chronicle of Higher Education article referred to in the BOV emails:
http://chronicle.com/article/Innovations-in-Higher/131424/
Here is the Wall Street Journal op-ed by John cHubb and Terry Moe they referred to:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304019404577416631206583286.html
And here is David Brooks' "Campus Tsunami" op-ed that they referred to:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/opinion/brooks-the-campus-tsunami.html