Links
Union Sites
The web site for the reform caucus within the PSC-CUNY. Full of news, information, and valuable links about CUNY and, especially, higher education. Hats off to webmaster supreme Bill Friedheim.
Official PSC-CUNY website. Don't expect heart palpitations, but the site is well-constructed and more interesting than many a visit to the monthly Delegate Assembly.
Slick but mainly promotional and good, clean fun. A site to make members feel good about their union, kind of like Disneyland makes you feel good about the fruits and justice of consumer-citizenship.
Somebody from the AFT should keep tabs on the competition. This is an excellent site, especially for those in higher ed. Of special note - - the NEA Annual Almanac of Higher Education, which collects some of the sharpest analyses on post-secondary funding, the fate of the profession, and the future of things collegiate.
Ambitious and lively site created and run by the Grad Student Caucus of the MLA. A lot of variety here, most of it stimulating and challenging. Expert design and excellent editing make it a model for intellectual-activist web presence.
Reports and articles
Web site for The Institute for Higher Education Policy. Copies of IHEP's report on Distance Learning, "What's the Difference?", can be downloaded from the site. Also available is IHEP's report, "The Tuition Puzzle: Putting the Pieces Together."
www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/fttn99
U.S. Dept. of Commerce site where you can view and download the latest installment of "Falling through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide."
Copies of the Benton Foundation's 1998 report (co-sponsored by they National Urban League) on class differences in cyberspace, "Losing Ground Bit by Bit: Low-Income Communities in the Information Age," can be found at this site. The Benton Foundation also publishes an informative newsletter: The Digital Beat.
CTCnet supports the development of Community Technology Centers. You can view and download a copy of their CTC: Center Start-Up Manual to get the ball rolling on democratic access to technology in your community.
Web site for a very successful and innovative Community Technology Center in East Palo Alto, CA.
Here, you can find "Reaching the Top: A Report of the National Task Force on Minority High Achievement." The report details the under-representation of minority students in higher education, and especially in "selective" colleges and universities. The concern: how to preserve the "Talented Tenth" in the lean, mean, post-liberal era of anti-affirmative action? If you can unravel the implications and meanings of "affirmative development," email me.
humanitas.ucsb.edu/liu/palinurus/index2.html
One of the best web sites on the politics of higher education, Alan Liu's Palinurus site is full of online documents, links, and other ore. The site is subtitled: "The Academy and the Corporation: Teaching Humanities in a Restructured World." A dense site, not so easy to navigate . . .but treasures await those who join the voyaging Palinurus.
The AFT's recent, rather tepid position paper on the erosion of full-time faculty in higher education. A pretty good example of mainstream labor leadership's response to the creative destruction of current university and college "re-engineering." Hello! . . .can anyone find the word "cataclysm" (or "extinction") in the Official Al Shanker Thesaurus?
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