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Volker Schneider: a Professor’s Professor

Bill Dutton Fifth Estate, Friends and Colleagues, General Interest, Governance, politics, teaching, Universities , , , ,

I’ve returned from a Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Volker Schneider, who has moved to an Emeritus Professorship at the University of Konstanz in 2020. While a celebration of his retirement was delayed repeatedly by the pandemic, his colleagues moved ahead with an edited collection of papers for his Festschrift around the politics of the complex … Continue reading Volker Schneider: a Professor’s Professor

What Happened to our Academic Culture?

Bill Dutton General Interest, Information Communication and the Social Sciences, Social Science Research , , , , ,

Universities – along with their centers, departments, and colleges – vary greatly in the vibrancy of their respective academic culture (intellectual climate). Nevertheless, no university can be complacent about the vitality of their culture for academic excellence – least they lose it. Of course, there is no single academic culture. There are differences in the … Continue reading What Happened to our Academic Culture?