This week's good news/bad news: STEM v. Humanities, episode 2,420; student protests breaking out in India; exposing the colleges that are being bailed out, because they are too-big-to-fail; new ways to make your professors better teachers; and, finally, hug a corporation week. Plus, this week's research compare climate scientists with high school teachers. Our feature interview is with Jamie Brownlee, author of Academia, Inc.

 

 

"I don't think that the interests of corporations and public universities can be really 'brought into balance.' I think that public universities are corporations are, in many respects, profoundly incompatible institutions. With very deeply contradictory goals and values--perhaps even irreconcilable. What I would call for? I think in certain areas, we need to see these institutions divorce themselves from one another."