I’m surprised that so many people thought the data on US college grads was not representative of the job we are doing. I find the letters that the author answered interesting in themselves. More on American Colleges’ Standing in the World – NYTimes.com. In any case, this is what I wrote. Though I have taught […]
From NYT Mag: “…is this a recessionary blip or the dawn of a whole new economic age?” My Answer: “No, It’s the Education Stupid.”
June 22, 2014 by
It’s Official: The Boomerang Kids Won’t Leave – NYTimes.com. This is a sad article. Yes, it describes the effects of a terrible recession. But moreso, it describes the lingering effects of not honestly giving students a good education. It describes the effects of a thirty-plus year of misallocating national resources away from university education to […]
Brooklyn College Graduates Step In to Depressing Job Market? No, Brooklyn College Appears to Teach Little.
June 9, 2014 by
Brooklyn College Graduates Step In to Depressing Job Market – NYTimes.com. Even their top graduate is having trouble. To get a degree in business, management and finance at Brooklyn College, two math courses are required: Calculus I, and, Elementary Probability and Statistics. (A more advanced Prob. and Stat. course can be taken.) Here are four (of eight) questions from […]
Is a Business School a Business?
June 2, 2014 by
Business School, Disrupted – NYTimes.com. I found the above article interesting. I commented: “Worrisome. This article portrays HBS strugging with what should be a decision about EDUCATIONAL POLICY, as being solely a decision about BUSINESS strategy. Robert Maynard Hutcins warned about such an approach. “…when an institution determines to do something in order to […]
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 business operations. Few businesses can take advantage of a decades old brand. Few businesses have the […]
Sexual Assault Case at Columbia – Extremely Sad
May 4, 2014 by
This is in today’s NY Times. Fight Against Sex Assaults Holds Colleges to Account – NYTimes.com. I find the manner in which the young woman was apparently treated in line with how an administration would try to silence anything harmful to the “brand”. I don’t know if that is the case here, but I worry […]
Added Edit to a Post on U. of Chicago Curriculum
April 16, 2014 by
I added this link to “Content Deflation” Part II: University of Chicago Felt the Heat University of Chicago Choses Cornell Provost – NYTimes.com. I think the U. of Chicago case is important because it shows that the faculty are the final arbiters of the schools’ educational mission and of whether the university will sell its “soul”. […]
What Are We Teaching in Law School? That You Can’t Fool All the People But You Can Fool the Ones Without Resources?
April 16, 2014 by
In the conclusion of PLOS ONE: Inflated Applicants: Attribution Errors in Performance Evaluation by Professionals there is a reference to, In Law Schools, Grades Go Up, Just Like That – NYTimes.com. That article is about law schools that change their grading to help their graduates get better jobs. For example, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, retroactively […]
Groucho on: “Colleges Increasing Spending on Sports Faster Than on Academics, Report Finds” – NYT.com
April 7, 2014 by
Colleges Increasing Spending on Sports Faster Than on Academics, Report Finds – NYTimes.com. GROUCHO (Dean Quincy Adams Wagstaff ): Have we got a stadium? FACULTY: Yes. GROUCHO: Have we got a college? FACULTY: Yes. GROUCHO: Well, we can’t support both. Tomorrow we start tearing down the college. —From Horse Feathers, 1932, starring the Marx Brothers […]
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