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More New Blogs of Interest

| Peter Klein |

2 comments 26 December 2008

Interesting Blogs

| Peter Klein |

1 comment 9 December 2008

Shared Governance: Benefits and Costs

| Peter Klein |

Back in grad school I was regularly hectored by a fellow student about joining the Association of Graduate Student Employees (AGSE), our local collective-bargaining association. Despite his attempt to stigmatize me as a free rider, I never joined. I didn’t think I agreed with the organizations goals, and I was sure I didn’t want to be associated with AGSE’s parent organization, the United Auto Workers (go figure). One year there was even a strike, which I found silly (I scabbed).

This semester I’m getting repeated invitations to join the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Again, I hesitate. Of course, as an American university professor, I’m happy to see more power, prestige, and perquisites go to American university professors (OK, specifically, to me). But the AAUP has a strange agenda. Its mission includes not only protecting academic freedom and defending the role of the university in public life, but also preserving shared governance. Having spent many years in university settings, I’m convinced that shared governance is grossly inefficient, at least most of the time. There can be benefits, of course, to offset these costs, as is the case with worker-owned cooperatives and other non-standard forms of organization. But one searches the AAUP’s website in vain for any analysis or evidence on shared governance. What are the benefits and costs, relative to other feasible organizational forms? Why should professors defend this peculiar institution? (more…)

4 comments 27 March 2008

My Redesigned Site

| Nicolai Foss |

Check it out. I have dropped the quasi-blog feature of the old version (I hadn’t maintained it for almost a year anyway), so now I can concentrate on O&M and this one. I will soon upload talks and work in progress.

Add comment 3 April 2007

More Interesting Links

| Peter Klein |

More links for O&M readers to enjoy. (Celebrity readers, you too!)

Add comment 26 August 2006

Roundup of Interesting Links

| Peter Klein |

Besides the links in the right-hand-side column below, O&M readers may find the following of interest:

Add comment 18 August 2006


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