July 3, 2008

Chronic Poverty

I have believed for a long time that life for the extreme poor will not see much improvement in my lifetime – which is why I believe I can make a small contribution to focus upon poverty in my work. Which is all about the excesses and irrelevant things in life.
I have recently come across [...]

July 3, 2008

Administration versus faculty

Coming from India where the two are so far separated – I continue to see the two branches if university as having different agendas. And ways of looking at things. This seems to be a universal belief though.
Academics are happy with their jobs and with their careers, but they are extremely unhappy with their institutions. [...]