Note the headline of this from a frontpage article of the May 16 Chronicle, A Caring Professor May Be Key in How a Graduate Thrives - Administration - The Chronicle of Higher Education. The article focuses little on the second part of this … [Continue reading]
Student Debt Grows Faster at Universities With Highest-Paid Leaders, Study Finds – NYTimes.com
May 19, 2014 by
I'm posting this link because I think it is interesting. Student Debt Grows Faster at Universities With Highest-Paid Leaders, Study Finds - NYTimes.com. 5/20/14 I added a comment on the report site. Here it is. (For those that have already … [Continue reading]
Workers at N.Y.U.’s Abu Dhabi Site Faced Harsh Conditions
May 19, 2014 by
This is the lead article on today's Times. Workers at N.Y.U.’s Abu Dhabi Site Faced Harsh Conditions - NYTimes.com. This very good article helps demonstrate just how much American universities think they can get away with in their essentially … [Continue reading]
More on Frank Bruni’s Column
May 18, 2014 by
In the previous post , I explained why I don't believe that America has many "great" universities. I made another comment on the same article, trying to point out why "just money" is not even close to the answer. Here is the comment. "We can't … [Continue reading]
Frank Bruni Gets Closer to the Truth, But Just Closer
May 18, 2014 by
This is his column for today: Class, Cost and College - NYTimes.com. I have a post and a link to one of his previous columns. I made a couple of comments on his column to try to explain why I don't totally agree with him. Here there are, in … [Continue reading]
That’s What You Mean When You Say “Think”!
May 17, 2014 by
That's a quote from a student. My wife likes the story and thought I should post it. It's from when I taught at Southern Illinois University back in the eighties. First, you need a little background. I would tell calculus students that there … [Continue reading]
Ross Douthat Gets It!
May 11, 2014 by
Last week there was an article in the New York Times about Columbia's reaction to a rape accusation. (See Assualt at Columbia) Today Ross Douthat published this excellent column. Rape and the College Brand - NYTimes.com. … [Continue reading]
Telling Story on Carnegie-Mellon’s Homepage
Committed to 'EXCEL' - Carnegie Mellon University | CMU. Here is what is telling to me. Instead of responding to students having difficulties with hard courses by either grade inflation or content deflation, they are actually just helping the … [Continue reading]