Ronald Hartz
@ronaldhartz
Interim Professor at Europa-Universität Viadrina and Senior Researcher at Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany | organization studies | critical management studies | higher education he/him
"‘Look’, it says, ‘can’t you see that we admitted that student from his deeply impoverished background? If he can do it, anyone can’. And thus the university absolves itself of any proper social responsibility for a world of massive structural inequality" (Docherty, 2015: 61).
“Furchtbares hat die Menschheit sich antun müssen, bis das Selbst, der identische, zweckgerichtete, männliche Charakter des Menschen geschaffen war, und etwas davon wird noch in jeder Kindheit wiederholt.” (Horkheimer/Adorno) What's on your reading list about the new Christopher Nolan movie?
"Establish a rule barring any VC or President from nomination for State honours of any kind (such as knighthoods, damehoods, and the like). This should help to ensure that the institution does not subjugate its proper tasks to those that would make it complicit with any specific Statist ideology".
I can sense a certain enthusiasm for the Bayeux Tapestry right on here. That’s fair enough, but have you ever tried the mousse chocolat in Bayeux?
"Redundancy is not easy to talk about and is often something we’d rather not have to think about. Redundancy is the sort of thing that keeps us awake at night; it is the stuff of nightmares." (Paul Simpson (2021): Feeling redundancy) #HigherEd #Redundancies
A kind of follow up: "It always struck me, too, that the opacity and secrecy they favored were not so much strategically essential as a way of theatricalizing their own importance." cafeamericainmag.com/the-hollowin...
"As there is no disputing that management has its hands on the reins during reorganizations, ... managers soon discovered that it is best for them to keep their institutions in a permanent state of reorganization." (Chris Lorenz, 2012) #HigherEd www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Ich habe Angst, dass uns jetzt ein Feiertag gestrichen wird. Also verdient hätten wir es.
This is us. New publication in Learning and Teaching 👇. www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
Why does it take so terrible long to publish the minutes of Senate meetings?
"UK economics undergraduate education has been dominated for decades by a narrow, neoclassical tradition that treats the subject as a value-free science." New report from the Association for Qualitative Economics. cdn.prod.website-files.com/68d67aaffc73...
New publication: Elke Weik and I discuss the ongoing deinstitutionalisation of and loss of faith in the modern university, which manifests itself in certain practices adopted to veil, take advantage of, or cope with this loss. [open access] #HigherEd doi.org/10.3167/lati...
'The only reason they wanted to “do AI” was because they read it in the newspaper or heard somebody they thought was intelligent insist that it was the future.' That certainly does not apply to universities. www.wheresyoured.at/brokenomics/
I, for one, would prefer to think about paradigms than about so called "viewpoint diversity".
"As there is no disputing that management has its hands on the reins during reorganizations ... managers soon discovered that it is best for them to keep their institutions in a permanent state of reorganization." (Chris Lorenz, 2012) #HigherEd www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
"The protection of critical thinking has always involved a confrontation with power. ... The principle that guides us, that articulates the meaning of our struggle, is academic freedom. Critical thinking, in this definition of it, is both the cause and effect of academic freedom." (Scott, 2019)
This. 'It always struck me, too, that the opacity and secrecy they favored were not so much strategically essential as a way of theatricalizing their own importance. How do you plan to…? “Relevant members of faculty will be informed in due course”.' #UKHE cafeamericainmag.com/the-hollowin...
"In recent times, the thing that has to be governed, above all, is the tongue.” (Thomas Docherty, 2015: 107)
"we decided to employ academic capitalism in part because alternatives - academic entrepreneurism or entrepreneurial activity - seemed to be an euphemisms for academic capitalism which failed to capture fully the enroachment of the profit motive into the academy" (Slaughter/Leslie (1997))
Anpassungsstrategien russischer WissenschaftlerInnen unter den Bedingungen des modernen Autoritarismus - interessante Studie im neuen Leviathan. #AcademicFreedom #Wissenschaftsfreiheit www.inlibra.com/de/document/...
On powerlessness, condering what it means to 'work in the wreckage', and the need to defend our autonomy and act in solidarity. Great paragraph from the contribution of Liz Morrish to Knowledge under Siege. #HigherEd #AcademicFreedom uofrpress.ca/Books/K/Know...
‘At the top of the line in the hierarchy, one never finds any individual who accepts responsibility for things going wrong. … [H]owever, if something goes well, ... the ‘Remuneration Committee’ suddenly find that this is all because of the individuals at the top of the line’. (Thomas Docherty)
"But spirit-as-flame is only possible amid air. Crowd out the air and the flame dies, and the spirit with it. Increasingly, the air is being sucked out of universities as they become more corporate, more bureaucratic and more managed." (Barnett: Being A University, p.153)