Export Controls and the Control of Speech On University Campuses and By Faculty Abroad--On the Complicity of Universities and Government to Monitor and Restrict Access to Speech and Speakers

(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) Universities have become willing partners in systems of privatized law making.  Recently, universities have...

General Education Reform: The Students Speak, Will Faculty Listen? Marginalizing the Student Voice in the Reform Process

The Pennsylvania State University, like many universities of its size and reputation, periodically review and modify what has become a stapl...

Breaking For Brief Moment of Levity

(Pix (c) larry Catá Backer 2014) Humor sometimes serves not merely to lighten the mood but to create a space, within laughter, within which ...

Proposing a Set of Social Media Policy Guidelines For Penn State University

(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) I have written about emerging efforts to manage the speech of faculty in American Universities. 1. Kansas S...

Nominees Selected to Penn State Board of Trustees--Opportunity to Engage In the Confirmation Process

(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) This was recently Reported:  Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett turned to a National Hockey League executive an...

Tracking Online Education in the United States Babson Survey Research Group Report (Jan. 2014)

Grade Change - Tracking Online Education in the United States , the 2013 survey of on-line learning report, authored by I. Elaine Allen and ...

The Rising Price of Speech on Campus

  (Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) Americans appear to have developed a quite distinct but two sided vision of what we like to call "fr...

Diversity in Silence--The Joint Diversity Task Force Report at Penn State University Becomes Less Visible

Penn State University, like many other similarly situated institutions of post secondary education, has been struggling with the very hard w...