Then again, I’d much rather live by Auden’s Hermetic Decalogue:
‘Thou shalt not sit
With statisticians nor commit
A social science.
Thou shalt not be on friendly terms
With guys in advertising firms’ etc.
3/3

or has economist augury improved since then? The marketisation of HE is an unmitigated disaster in all kinds of ways, but it would somehow seem even more meaningless if all we are doing is to subordinate scholarship and pedagogy to McKinsey horoscopes. 2/3

When's the last time you heard a VC whose university has financial woes speak openly & eloquently about why what his/her/their institution does really matters & merits investment? Why can't/won't university leaders work to change the conversation? With this profile, this VC should be able to. 2/2

I know right?! It's right there in the name, for crying out loud.

An absoloote classic! www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2b-...

Somehow this photo displays the perfect nature-to-culture ratio for the western mountains of Norway.

This is very sad news indeed. I never met him, but his writings have been deeply influential on me since my grad student days. Requiescat in pace.

No, she's being quite sophisticated – surely this means a non-magical horse with a horse-shaped horn (= horsey corn') on its forehead?

That's actually a good, workable solution. I'm taking notes.

ah, the Variorum conundrum? Been there, fudged that.