A insider's guide to the frightening reality of higher education
From Harvard University’s President Derek Bok’s 1996 Report to the Board of Overseers,
“The commercialization of universities is perhaps the most severe threat facing higher education…Universities appear less and less as charitable institutions seeking truth and serving students, and more and more as a huge commercial operation that differs from corporations only because there are no shareholders and no dividends.”
Here is a list of my posts that I believe are most essential for understanding the problems with higher education. I suggest reading the page with quotes from David Riesman and Clark Kerr, first, though. Then, hopefully, some of my posts give examples and explanations of how their general observations work out in practice. The best place on this blog for seeing and understanding just how outrageous things have become – and how much some academics think they can get away with – see A Tale Out of School – A Case Study in Higher Education. Finally, keep in mind that if what follows is what just one individual has observed, how much else is there?
EDUCATION AT MAJOR UNIVERSITIES
How Competition Leads to “Content Deflation” in One Anecdote
America: A flagging model | The Economist
How to Make Calculus Students Believe They Know Calculus When They Don’t
EDUCATION AT STATE REGIONAL SCHOOLS
Professor Alfred Doesn’t Know What is Wrong with the Homework
Prof. Teaches Stats But Doesn’t Seem to Have a Clue About the Most Fundamental Notion
Statistics Prof. Kevin Doesn’t Understand Basic Math, or Statistics
Regional State School Stories – Some Brief Thoughts About How Did This Happen
MAJOR UNIVERSITIES EFFECT ON REGIONAL SCHOOLS AND HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER EDUCATION
No Jobs for Ph.D’s? Depends on what you mean by Ph.D.
An Example of College Benefitting From the Dumbing Down of High School
Important Paper on Value of Good Teacher May Be a Game Changer
“They Just Don’t Get It” part 2
A Suggestion for Holding Colleges Accountable for Teacher Performance
RESEARCH ETHICS
Scientists “Forced” to Cheat Says Medical School Professor
GENERAL
Arum and Roksa’s Important New Book “Aspiring Adults Adrift”
Professors DON’T become professors to teach! Better get over that idea fast.
Median Starting Salaries for College Graduates $27,000 or $40,735?
Columbia University – Another 3-2 Program Like Wash. U.’s?
When Is It Ok For a Non-Profit To Misrpresent Its Fees to the Public?
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