This is in today’s WSJ, Greek Life Shown to Be Linked to Real-Life Happiness – WSJ.com. Here is how I see it (which I put in a comment). “Before jumping to conclusions about why students who were Greeks lead happier lives, everyone should read “Paying for the Party – How College Maintains Inequality” by Armstrong […]
Wall St. Journal Article on a Graduate Here in St. Louis
May 26, 2014 by
An outrageous, sad, but too often true, story: For New Graduates, Path to a Career Is Bumpy – WSJ.com. Here was my comment: “What happened to this young woman is outrageous. I’m a retired math professor. I live in St. Louis. Years ago I taught at SIUE (Southern Ill. Univ. at Edwardsville). It is similar […]
No gains for 12th-graders on national exam – The Washington Post
May 8, 2014 by
I posted comments on this coverage and the coverage in the WSJ. No gains for 12th-graders on national exam – The Washington Post. Here is the comment: The major reason for poor high school performance is easy to see, but most people have trouble believing the elephant in the room is HIGHER EDUCATION,. That elephant […]
Gallup-Purdue Poll: “Support” and “Deep Learning” Means Everything in College
May 6, 2014 by
Here is the link to the survey Life in College Matters for Life After College. There is also an article in the Wall Street Journal. I added a comment, partially because I was concerned that the focus of the article was a little too much on “support”. Here is my comment. “From the perspective of someone […]
More on “Corporate Cash Alters University Curricula”
April 8, 2014 by
Corporate Cash Alters University Curricula. There were some replies to my comment. I replied to one and someone very thoughtfully replied to that and….. Anyway, here they all are. Anthony Bonefeste wrote, “Acedemic freedom” is all well and good. But charging six figures to mislead students into thinking that there is a career in Germanic Poetry […]
Corporations Join Up With Colleges to Design Curricula – WSJ.com
April 8, 2014 by
Corporations Join Up With Colleges to Design Curricula – WSJ.com. This reporting is excellent and important. I commented but this is a topic that I want to think about more. Here is my comment. “Good news? or, bad news? Here is the view from a former math professor who has been worried about higher education […]
Underwriting Standards for Universities? Why Not?
March 25, 2014 by
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a good article on graduate student debt http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303949704579459803223202602 It gave me an idea that I posted as a comment. I haven’t carefully thought it through but here it is. (If you regularly read this blog, you can skip the third paragraph.) “…”…if we had some sort of underwriting standards…” …[the author […]
I Hope Princeton and its New President are Listening
March 22, 2014 by
I commented on the article http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304756104579453570560473730 . As I have posted before, I am concerned that Princeton faculty don’t see what is happening as clearly as the University of Chicago faculty saw in the nineties. (See my post Princeton Giving Up on Using Grades As Motivation and Feedback? for Princeton and “Content Deflation” Part II: University of […]
WSJ: Pressured to State Facts, Schools Give Excuses and Questionable Data
March 17, 2014 by
There is a good article in today’s WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/public/page/reader-comments.html?baseDocId=SB10001424052702303546204579435050684294642&headline=Colleges%20Are%20Tested%20by%20Push%20to%20Prove%20Graduates’%20Career%20Success I commented as follows: from my experience as a former professor (I taught math at Wsshington University at St. Louis.), I read the opening paragraphs of this article as follows: “Marketing and sales departments of universities tout their schools qualities, but are unwilling to release data […]
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