Opinion | What Students Read Before They Protest – The New York Times (nytimes.com) I commented as follows. Beware. First, a large proportion of Columbia’s undergraduates are engineering majors. They don’t have to take all the courses. Second, some of the core courses aren’t what you might expect. (For example, there is “Game of Thrones”: […]
Very Funny Opinion Piece in Wash. Post
April 23, 2024 by
Opinion | A modest proposal to save higher education – The Washington Post Here is my comment (that a professor didn’t like.) Great Idea! They’re already off to a running start. They got rid of “students” (a quaint word that is so pre-1980’s) a long time ago and replaced them with “customers”. Oh, and “professors”? […]
Elite Film Program Graduates: Median Debt of $181,000, Median Salary $30,000. Think Columbia, NYU, USC and Other Masters Degrees.
April 17, 2024 by
To the Ex. Editor of the NY Times: Maybe Something is Wrong at Colleges?
April 13, 2024 by
“[The Ex. Editor] also suggested that colleges aren’t preparing new hires to be tolerant of dissenting views.” This is from today’s WSJ article, New York Times Bosses Seek to Quash Rebellion in the Newsroom – WSJ . Here is the comment I made. “He also suggested that colleges aren’t preparing new hires to be tolerant […]
Keeping Engineering Students in the Program as “Happy Customers” is Wreaking Havoc on American Manufacturing.
April 12, 2024 by
America’s Chip Renaissance Needs Workers – WSJ See my comment on the article. Here is what I wrote. Many universities, like the “elite” one where I taught engineers, want happy “customers”, not educated ‘students”. That America doesn’t have the excellent engineers it needs is not a surprise to me. When I taught differential equations, the […]
SMU – FUN! FUN! FUN! Is that what college is for?
April 2, 2024 by
Universities Don’t Want Much Research Oversight (WSJ)
March 29, 2024 by
Here is a link to the excellent article. The Feds Want More Oversight of Scientific Research. Universities Are Fighting Back. – WSJ I wrote a post The Purloined Proof (inside-higher-ed.com about how some well-known professors stole someone’s work. I reference it my comment on the Journal’s articles. Here is my comment. I’m a former professor. […]
Pamel Paul of the NY Times Sadly Misses the Forest for the Trees
March 14, 2024 by
Insightful Piece by George Will in the Washington Post.
Here is a link to it. Opinion | Campus pro-Palestinian protests sap universities’ prestige. Good. – The Washington Post Here is what I posted. This nation’s most admired observer of higher education (and a revered sociologist) saw what was happening as early as 1980. the “wants” of students to which competing institutions, departments, and individual […]