RST: Are you still mad at me, Gordon? On the phone the other day, you said it was the twins’ 14th birthday. You got all grandfather proud and texted me a photo of you holding both of them as newborns. I made barfing sounds and said they looked like mushrooms.
RST: Moving along, do you think the last two crazy years are a blip in U.S. history and things are going to be more sane now? I am embracing optimism on all fronts.
EGG: Embrace optimism. Our democracy is very strong and resilient and last week was the proof. The Dems will probably overplay their hand, but that is fine because the R’s have done that over the past two years. Maybe we can finally find ourselves perched in the middle of our electorate. That is my hope.
RST: Here’s something that caught me off guard at a recent conference: I was talking about how little attention faculty pay to the national landscape of higher ed and often don’t realize that their campus problems are actually pretty darned universal. Most faculty don’t read The Chronicle or Inside Higher Ed. An administrator stopped me and said, “That’s because we told them they didn’t have to. They focused on their students and their disciplines and their campuses because that’s how we reward them.”
Source: Inside Higher Ed — Read the full article on the original site ↗