John Durham Peters

john-peters@uiowa.edu

Should universities be more like businesses? Some businesses are learning to be more like universities

We hear a lot about how universities need to behave more like businesses.  Controversies at the universities of Virginia, Wisconsin, and now Iowa, where I teach, have pitted conservative, business-friendly outsiders against university faculty and administration.  The university is not sustainable, the critics say: it needs to get with the times. There is something deeply […]

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Cloud [draft] [#digitalkeywords]

“The web is full of beatific images of laptops sitting on heavenly clouds.  The rhetoric of the data cloud likes to exploit the peaceful, inconsequential parts of the tradition while suppressing the rest. ‘The cloud’ is a huge PR achievement for the IT industry, but it is profoundly deceptive.”   The following is a draft of an […]

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