| To AI or not to AI: That is the question | I recently built a new “AI” computer (which basically means an expensive gaming machine!) in order to take advantage of new Large Language Models (LLMs) that allow users to interact with prompts run locally (supposedly) on one’s ownContinue Reading
Epilogue | The Inequality of Honors “As will be seen from the above explication of details and circumstances, such practicable measures as have hitherto been offered as a corrective to this sterilization of the universities by business principles, amount to a surrender by these institutions to the enemies of learning,Continue Reading
| I am unable to count the number of times that I came across an article in which an academic scholar proclaimed an impending crisis that threatened to destroy the very nature of higher education during the past sixty years. Crisis and conflict may be the first two memes of the culture of higher education scholarship. | Continue Reading
1 | One Hundred Years of “Institutional Research” “[T]he university is, in usage, precedent, and commonsense preconception, an establishment for the conservation and advancement of higher learning, devoted to a disinterested pursuit of knowledge. As such, it consists of a body of scholars and scientists, each and several of whomContinue Reading
Institutional researchers oversee a bounty of information stored in student information systems and enterprise resource planning systems of colleges universities. Yet, there is little guidance to enable IR practitioners to collectively organize their respective institutions into a large array for the systematic measurement of student success and “what works” inContinue Reading
