Penn State University Faculty Senate Chair Censured by the Faculty Senate

  (Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) I have been writing about the consequences of the wellness wars at Penn State.  ( Penn State's New ...

Transparency in Senate Elections--Reform From the Bottom Up

Faculty Senate elections at Penn State have traditionally been secret affairs.  The numbers are tabulated and the results announced with no ...

Interview on the Senate Forensic at Penn State: Implementing the Affordable Care Act (ACA)

The University Faculty Senate at Penn State will be conducting a forensic session on aspects of Penn State's compliance with the Patient...

Managing Perception and Creating Reality Through Data Management--The Battle Over the "Best" Way to Understand MOOCs

I have recently posted about the habits of lazy and perhaps bad management as an impediment to the  development of MOOCs as an important ele...

Rulemaking Through the Back Door--Using Assessment Tools to Shape Education

I have been writing about the ways in which our governance cultures have been moving away from a rule-command structure to a behavior manage...

Implementing the Affordable Care Act at Penn State--Employer Responsibility Provisions and the Part Time Employee

  (Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) ― also known as the Affordable CareAc...