My comment is below. Here is a link to the article and summary of the issue in the article that I commented on: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323466204578382753004333838.html#articleTabs%3Darticle%26commentId%3D5606582 Summary: 1. College graduates hired into low skilled jobs during the recession may be stuck there. 2. A study seems to indicate that the high tech jobs aren’t there.3. David Autor, […]
Archives for March 2013
Comment on another of Jordan Weissmann’s posts in the Atlantic
March 22, 2013 by
I commented on http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/03/the-miserable-odds-of-a-poor-student-graduating-from-college-in-2-graphs/274250/#comments I wanted to note differences between schools. Here is a copy of my comment, but there are also some resonses on the site. Anyway, here is the copy. “Unfortunately, gross statistics can be misleading in the case of higher education. This can be especially true for low-income students who are most […]
If even Harvard faculty are afraid of speaking out on issues of higher education, who will?
March 12, 2013 by
The following revealing quote is from an article in today’s New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/12/education/harvard-search-e-mail-accounts.html?_r=0): “…Most professors who agreed to discuss the matter … insisted on anonymity, not wanting to run afoul of the administration…” This is both revealing and worrisome. That’s because “the matter” that these (probably mostly tenured, highly compensated) professors don’t want to be on the record as […]
Article on Jobs and Degrees in Chronicle of Higher Education
March 5, 2013 by
The Chronicle of Higher Education (www.chronicle.com) does an excellent job of reporting. There is a recent article that describes employers views of the product colleges are, in general, producing. That “product” is, of course, college graduates. (I know that people aren’t products, but that just makes it sadder.) Here is a link to the article: […]
On Mark Bauerlein’s Commentary in “The Chronicle of Higher Education”
March 4, 2013 by
In his Commentary “Give AP Credit Where Credit Is Due”, Professor Bauerlein explains how he “…chaired a group of high-school and college English teachers charged … with reviewing and revising the standards for…” an AP course. (See his entire commentary at http://chronicle.com/article/Give-AP-Credit-Where-Credit-Is/137543/) Prof. Bauerlein writes that there “…was a deliberate, two-year process. For instance, we examined the results […]
Why Ph.D’s don’t get jobs as professors
I just posted an explanatory comment to: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/how-many-phds-actually-get-to-become-college-professors/273434/ The article was by Jordan Weismann Here is my comment. (The data I refer to shows that not many Ph.D’s get jobs as professors.) This data only substantiates what we in the business of higher education have known for years, “…universities give Ph.D.’s for reasons other than that […]