Liveblog: Sorry, I can’t type fast enough to get everything. Some highlights from the town hall: Banavar, Berkman, and Pratt are on stage. Shelton (EW interview with some unfortunate quotes here) has been relegated to the admin table towards towards the back. Obviously the administration is backing away as fast…
Posts tagged as “academic analytics”
2/7/2018: From The Times: All seven of the UK’s research councils have signed up to a declaration that calls for the academic community to stop using journal impact factors as a proxy for the quality of scholarship. The councils, which together fund about £3 billion of research each year, are among…
2/3/2017: https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/02/03/elsevier-acquires-altmetrics-provider 10/27/2016: Provost drops $100K subscription to faulty Academic Analytics faculty data This is great news. The $100K that Provost Coltrane just saved will allow UO to hire a tenure track humanities professor. Oh wait, sorry. This comes from the Provost of Georgetown University, Robert Groves. Read his full…
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 2:30 pm HEDCO Education Building, Room 240. It’s a telephonic meeting, but apparently there will be a phone there to listen in. The full draft of the proposal is here. From what I can tell this is the first specific reference to the administration’s use of the confidential Academic…