Someone made this comment: “Private U[niversitities face a lot of pressure tor retain students, who then become alums and contribute to the school. A lot of pressure to retain tuition paying students” Here was my response: (I should have qualified this statement by adding that some private schools do have financial problems.) “I don’t see […]
Do Private Universities Face Financial Pressure? Certainly, Not All
May 8, 2014 by Mark Feldman
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Comment on Piketty’s Book: What if the Growth in Education is an Illusion?
May 1, 2014 by Mark Feldman
I’m reading, CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Piketty, Thomas (2014-03-10). Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Kindle Locations 2-3). Harvard University Press. Kindle Edition. It has received phenomenol reviews. I will comment on it later. It is important for this blog because he writes that, “…Knowledge and skill diffusion is the key to overall productivity growth […]
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Focus on Administrative Attitudes: Carnegie Mellon Contrasted With Washington Univ. in St. Louis
April 24, 2014 by Mark Feldman
I received a comment from someone who taught at Carnegie in the 90’s. I will compare it – only with respect to administrative attitudes – to my experience at Washington Univ. in St. Louis. I believe that, though both of these observations are somewhat anecdotal, there is enough substance (and observation) in both cases to illuminate these serious and important […]
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Google: Comp. Sci. Grads Who Do Get Jobs There
April 20, 2014 by Mark Feldman
I thought I would follow up on my last post How to Get a Job at Google [Really What to Do in College to Get a Good Job.], Part 2 – NYTimes.com with the following list which I compiled from LinkedIn (So it is only a very rough estimate): School Math SAT % Comp. Sci. grads at Google Harvey […]
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Math – Tougher Than You Think (But Then So Is Spelling)
April 6, 2014 by Mark Feldman
First, the math. My wife was watching a local TV station after a bad storm. The reporter in the field showed the reporter at the station some of the big tree branches that had fallen. The reporter at the station asked, “Can you give us an idea of the diameter of some of the larger branches?” The reporter in the […]
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Content Deflation III – Does Wash. U. Physics Prof. Adopt It With Zeal? And Does the University Boast About It? Read This
April 3, 2014 by Mark Feldman
This is from my story ATaleOutofSchool but it is self-contained. I think it is helpful in understanding how much “content deflation” has entered the academy as a marketing tool that caters to student “wants”, while leaving students on their own to acquire their “needs”. Of course, it is even worse that just leaving them on […]
Filed Under: Teaching Tagged With: courses, engineering, Grade Inflation, STEM, universities, Washington University
Grade Inflation Pays But So Does Rolling Back the Odometer – Or Overrating a Bond
April 2, 2014 by Mark Feldman
But, eventually, the piper gets paid. Unearned grades means unlearned material. I just read the following article, Correspondence Bias in Performance Evaluation: Why Grade Inflation Works by Don A. Moore, Samuel A. Swift, Zachariah S. Sharek and Francesca Gino of Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.cbdr.cmu.edu/papers/pdfs/cdr_608.pdf. After hypothesizing (and later demonstrating) that graduate schools don’t pay attention to any particular […]
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Washington U. in St. Louis Touts Their Reduction in Net Financial Aid
March 18, 2014 by Mark Feldman
So, it seems. I just received my February edition of their magazine. (http://magazine.wustl.edu/2014/february/Pages/default.aspx) I started reading the cover article, “Creating Paths of Opportunity” (http://magazine.wustl.edu/2014/February/Pages/Creating-Paths-of-Opportunity.aspx ). It notes that Chancellor Wrighton just returned from a White House Summit on Higher Education on how to do more to “…attract and retain students of all backgrounds…” (Washington U. […]
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