Most people are not aware that research universities negotiate an “overhead rate” with the government. The simplest way to understand that is this example. Professor X gets a $1,000,000 grant. The grant pays her salary and benefits, and the salary for others. Her summer salary (which she would normally not get) would be paid, even […]
How Much Research Really Costs? Look at That New Building (Or Whatever) To See
February 6, 2015 by Mark Feldman
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US News On Retention – Say What?
February 5, 2015 by Mark Feldman
From page 70 of the 2015 “rankings”: “…The higher the proportion of freshmen who return…and eventually graduate, the better a school most likely is at offering the classes and services that students need to succeed…” Oh, if it were true. Do the people at US News know that another way of helping people “succeed” [in just […]
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New Federal College Ratings
February 2, 2015 by Mark Feldman
A link to the website that describes the rules and for making comments on them can be found on my new page, where you can find the comments I submitted.
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Buildings? How to Truly Build A Great Univeristy
January 23, 2015 by Mark Feldman
This is from Richard Cyert’s 1973 inaugural address as President of Carnegie Mellon University. He served until 1990. He certainly helped build a great university. “…Some people associate a quality education with fine, new buildings. Yet every new building increases the operating budget…and the university may end up with fewer funds for its educational…budget…it is far better […]
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Rice, CMU, MIT, etc…Was It Really True: Look to Your Right and Left, One of You Won’t Be Here Next Year?
January 22, 2015 by Mark Feldman
Not exactly, but close. I just came across the numbers for CMU; and, they are probably the same for the others. 1967-68 Carnegie-Mellon student enrollment in Carnegie Institute of Technology (which at that time included what is now Mellon School of Science and the School of Computer Science) was: Fresh 483 Soph 373 Junior 320 Senior 320 It […]
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OK, Maybe the Three R’s (Reading, Writing, ARithmetic) Should Be the Four RS (Reading, WRiting, ARithmetic, Science), But Still…
January 11, 2015 by Mark Feldman
…they need to always start with the 2 R’s Reading and WRiting. For an old fashioned explanation, recall that Jefferson said that no end of nobles will steal all the people’s money in a democracy with an uneducated citizenry. For an excellent description of what is happening to those two R’s now see the article by […]
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Your Grandmother’s Calculus!
December 22, 2014 by Mark Feldman
This is a link to a Single Variable Calculus course as taught in 1970 at MIT. Calculus Revisited: Single Variable Calculus | MIT OpenCourseWare. Having this course, with videos, transcript and problems is a wonderful resource. Comparing this course with today’s courses helps us see what it really means, in terms of learning, for faculty to require so much less study effort for […]
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Are You a College With a “Low-Performing” or “At-Risk” Teacher Preparation Program? Want a Grant For Programs with “High-Quality Teacher” Programs? No Problem.
December 16, 2014 by Mark Feldman
I’m reading about the new proposed Federal Teacher Preparation Rules. (They look ok to me, so far.) In any case, I came across this. It is reminiscent of the program I wrote about here. (See Note below.) “…a teacher preparation program must provide high-quality teacher preparation in order to be eligible to award TEACH Grants. […]
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Hopefully, the Department of Education Is On The Right Track
December 16, 2014 by Mark Feldman
Improving Teacher Preparation: Building on Innovation | U.S. Department of Education. I am putting a link to this so that readers are aware of it. In the meantime I will be reading the proposed rule and commenting on it, both here and on the government site for comments.
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