I have updated my page Baccalaureate to Ph.D. in Science and Engineering (Feeder Schools) to add a list of the top 50 colleges that produce students that go on to a Ph.D. in Science and Engineering. To me, that is a strong indication that they are doing a good job of teaching Science and Engineering, whether […]
Archives for September 2013
Science and Engineering College Comparisons – Many Liberal Arts Schools Doing Great Job.
September 16, 2013 by
Manil Suri (Mathematician and Author) Publishes Op-Ed Describing Interesting Ideas From Mathematics
September 16, 2013 by
Wall Street Journal Notes That Colleges are Worried About Not Enough Students. Are We Going to Get the 70’s Again With a Vengeance?
September 5, 2013 by
The WSJ reports bad news for education because any worry about decreased revenues, in my experience, leads to less education. You can read my argument, either as a comment on the article,(http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323893004579055332692755074.html?mod=WSJ_article_comments#articleTabs%3Darticle) or here: Oh, no, here we go again. In the 50’s and 60’s higher education became accustomed to a great influx of revenues. […]
USA Today claims that “Data measure value of a college degree”
September 3, 2013 by
USA Today has an article http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/03/how-higher-education-pays/2755345/ that has some findings that I think are (unintentionally) misleading. It relied too much on gross dats. Here is what I wrote. Is this “solving for the winning solution?” The article compares Tech. Assoc. Degrees in Texas with baccalaureate degrees to make one point, then compares STEM degrees in Virginia […]
Northwestern President Publishes Study About Northwestern And the National Bureau of Economic Research Publishes It?
Here is a link to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s article, “Adjuncts Are Better Teachers Than Tenured Professors, Study Finds” http://chronicle.com/article/Ad-juncts-Are-Bet-ter/141523/ Here is my view, which I posted on the Chronicle’s site as a comment. “The PRESIDENT of Northwestern has done a study about Northwester’s students, Northwestern’s Professors, and, Northwestern’s Adjuncts- a study coauthored with […]