After you read this, read some of my posts about “faux” PhDs. ‘Financially Hobbled for Life’: The Elite Master’s Degrees That Don’t Pay Off – WSJ
Elite Film Program Graduates: Median Debt of $181,000, Median Salary $30,000. Think Columbia, NYU, USC and Other Masters Degrees.
April 17, 2024 by Leave a Comment
To the Ex. Editor of the NY Times: Maybe Something is Wrong at Colleges?
April 13, 2024 by 1 Comment
“[The Ex. Editor] also suggested that colleges aren’t preparing new hires to be tolerant of dissenting views.” This is from today’s WSJ article, New York Times Bosses Seek to Quash Rebellion in the Newsroom – WSJ . Here is the comment I made. “He also suggested that colleges aren’t preparing new hires to be tolerant […]
Keeping Engineering Students in the Program as “Happy Customers” is Wreaking Havoc on American Manufacturing.
April 12, 2024 by Leave a Comment
America’s Chip Renaissance Needs Workers – WSJ See my comment on the article. Here is what I wrote. Many universities, like the “elite” one where I taught engineers, want happy “customers”, not educated ‘students”. That America doesn’t have the excellent engineers it needs is not a surprise to me. When I taught differential equations, the […]
Universities Don’t Want Much Research Oversight (WSJ)
March 29, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Here is a link to the excellent article. The Feds Want More Oversight of Scientific Research. Universities Are Fighting Back. – WSJ I wrote a post The Purloined Proof (inside-higher-ed.com about how some well-known professors stole someone’s work. I reference it my comment on the Journal’s articles. Here is my comment. I’m a former professor. […]
“…let our students know that Harvard is not really in the business of preparing them to grapple with the world’s complexities…”
February 25, 2024 by
That Fancy University Course? It Might Actually Come From an Education Company.(From the WSJ)
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Some 43% of College Grads Are Underemployed in First Job – WSJ
October 27, 2018 by
Source: Some 43% of College Grads Are Underemployed in First Job – WSJ I commented. Wonder why they don’t get jobs that require a college education? Read this. Today’s “degree” is not your grandmother’s college “education”… From Arum and Roksa’s… “Academically Adrift”, we learn that, after four years of college, average critical thinking improved by […]
A Graph Worth a Lot WSJ
October 25, 2017 by
Source: College Costs Continue to Edge Higher – WSJ I commented. It’s important to understand that colleges, not only use discriminatory pricing (“discriminatory” in its economic sense), but advertise a high tuition for branding purposes. Here is what that high price says to the “customer” (once quaintly called the “student”). You, the customer, are going […]
Colleges Resist Federal Effort to Gauge Student Outcomes – WSJ
April 10, 2017 by
Source: Colleges Resist Federal Effort to Gauge Student Outcomes – WSJ Nothing new here to readers of this blog I wrote, Of course they don’t want anyone to know. Want to see the smelly reason why? Just read “A Tale Out of School” (on my blog inside-higher-ed ) to get a realistic sense of how “outcomes” […]
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