I wrote: “…how radical some professors can be when they look at the external world and how conservative when they look inwardly at themselves…” (Clark Kerr, from the 2001 Preface to “The Uses of the University”) (Clark Kerr was a highly regarded sociologist and a Chancellor of the Univ. of Cal. system. He is the […]
Opinion | Liberal Hypocrisy in College Admissions? – The New York Times. Me “So What’s New?”
October 28, 2018 by
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 […]
More Than a College Graduation Gap
March 26, 2018 by
Source: The Growing College Graduation Gap – The New York Times It’s also a learning gap. Until the public wakes up to the realities of college, those gaps will only get worse. I taught for three decades, first at a regional state school, then at private research university. I know of what I speak; but, […]
Good Read: The Misguided Drive to Measure ‘Learning Outcomes’ – The New York Times
February 23, 2018 by
Source: The Misguided Drive to Measure ‘Learning Outcomes’ – The New York Times I commented: The elephant in the classroom is obvious to those with experience in higher education; and, as this author points out, “assessment” won’t budge the elephant. Throughout my career as a math professor – first at a state regional school, […]
Corporations and Government and Education – Excellent Analysis by Frank Bruni in NY Times
February 11, 2018 by
Source: Corporations Will Inherit the Earth – The New York Times I posted this comment on the page. Here is Thomas Jefferson on the importance of the type of education that is critical to democracy but not to corporations. “…Preach…a crusade against ignorance…improve the law for educating the common people. Let our countrymen know […]
Of Course They Operate Like Businesses – They ARE Businesses
November 9, 2017 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 […]
Maybe We’ve Been Thinking About the Productivity Slump All Wrong – The New York Times Me: You Betcha
July 26, 2017 by
Source: Maybe We’ve Been Thinking About the Productivity Slump All Wrong – The New York Times Here is what I wrote To paraphrase a politician, “It’s the education, stupid.” But, don’t we have the greatest universities in the world? Yes, but that doesn’t mean that those universities are doing anything to broadly disseminate knowledge. Our […]
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