See From ‘Hamlet’ to Hillary – NYTimes.com for Bruni’s article. My comment: “As a former professor – and observer of higher education – I think that in 2015 you would be hard put to find the type of courses that your examples took, not in 2015. I recently posted (on my blog inside-higher-ed) a syllabus from […]
Frank Bruni Thinks Learning LibArts Is Important? I Do Too, But Where Do You Go To Do That?
May 3, 2015 by
NY Times Column on Value of a Liberal Education
April 16, 2015 by
Starving for Wisdom – NYTimes.com I also recommend this fine article or the short version. When I was a Freshman at Carnegie Tech (Now Carnegie-Mellon), we had to take a course in composition, followed by a course in literature. I don’t remember everything we read in the composition course, but here is the best I can […]
Higher Education, Liberal Arts and Shakespeare – NYTimes.com
February 11, 2015 by
Higher Education, Liberal Arts and Shakespeare – NYTimes.com. My comment: First, liberal arts is not a luxury. Try this for starters. When you try to move up the corporate ladder, you are not going to get many chances to ask higher ups what they “meant by that”; and you better hope you can write good […]
Liberal Arts and Money – A Comment
January 24, 2014 by
Jordan Weissmann of The Atlantic posted an article titled “Money Is a Terrible Way to Measure the Value of a College Major” http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/money-is-a-terrible-way-to-measure-the-value-of-a-college-major/283290/#comments I commented on what I feel is the pecuniary value of a liberal arts education, and, on how earnings might reflect the quality of the liberal arts courses in a school. Here is […]
Political Science: University of Michigan, too?
January 6, 2014 by
Here is what I found. They use the same text as Washington University, except that I don’t think they have outside readings. On the other hand, if, as is apparently true in Wash. U.’s case, the readings don’t matter, what does it matter what text they use? (See my previous post.) The link to the […]
William Deresiewicz’s Incisive Observation Taken to Its Logical Conclusion
How college sold its soul to the market Source: [Essay] | The Neoliberal Arts, by William Deresiewicz | Harper’s Magazine I commented. To truly change higher education, the critical observation that college is neoliberal, needs to be followed to its logical conclusion. What has damned higher education in America is the neoliberalist view of colleges […]