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”: […]
“Student Loans and Defaults: The Facts – NYTimes.com” My View: Anyway you Slice it, or Dice it, It’s Too Commonly a Shakedown
June 12, 2015 by
“…Graduate students borrow a lot more than undergraduates…” Source: Student Loans and Defaults: The Facts – NYTimes.com I commented. A more descriptive statement than “…borrowing is highest among the minority of college students who go on for graduate study..” is:Borrowing is highest among two groups of students: those who realize that they were scammed and […]
Columbia Cancels High Visibility Concert – What Does This Really Mean?
August 18, 2014 by
Columbia Cancels Concert Amid Safety Concerns – NYTimes.com. I don’t know the answer to my own question. But, given that the adminstrators and faculty at Columbia haven’t changed, I worry that this particular concert was cancelled simply because of its high visiblity (It got in the Times.), and not because of any serious change in […]
Ross Douthat Gets It!
May 11, 2014 by
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 […]
Do Universities Care About Societal Issues? See “Getting Into the Ivies”
April 27, 2014 by
Getting Into the Ivies – NYTimes.com. Here is what I wrote, “…the poor catch up with the rich to the extent that they achieve the same level of technological know-how, skill, and education…” (quoted from Piketty, Thomas (2014-03-10). Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Kindle Locations 1315-1316). Harvard University Press. Kindle Edition. ) It is […]
More on Columbia University’s Report on Educational Quality
February 9, 2014 by
My view of Columbia’s teacher college went down even further as I read their report on teachinng quality and course rigor. I added this comment to the Chronicle of Higher Education. It points out some serious flaws – so serious that I’m a little shocked. “I want to add two more observations to what has […]
Is A Simpler Mortgage Application Good Or Bad, If The House Isn’t Inspected? More Ironic Than I Thought.
In my prevous post , I did’t comment on the fact that one of the authors is on the faculty of Columbia Teachers College. I did now. Here is the comment. One of the authors of this piece is from Columbia Teachers College. I didn’t notice that when I posted an earlier comment. That fact, […]