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The B-School Dilemma
Another indication of an education bubble? According to a recent New York Times article, business schools are full of students trying to skate through college: Brand-name programs — the Wharton School...
View ArticleIs the US Losing the Talent Race?
According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, that’s the implication of a recent report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: Nearly a third of people ages 55 to 64 with...
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The Future of the Workforce: How Public Colleges will deal with the “New Normal”
The Chronicle of Higher Education has an interesting piece on the challenges facing public and land-grant institutions these days. A recent conference examined how these colleges should respond to the...
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“Academically Adrift” is Methodologically Adrift
That’s the buzz, anyway. You’ve probably read about the latest jeremiad on higher education: Academically Adrift. Among its findings is the claim that 45 percent of students show no academic...
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A Consumer’s Guide to MOOCs
Want to compare the various MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) out there? The Chronicle of Higher Education has a handy guide here. The formats are as varied as the people who tune in. Some consist...
View ArticleThe “Grounded Curriculum:” How Traditional Higher Ed can remain relevant in...
This is sort of a follow-on to yesterday’s post about IT issues in academia. As we’ve posited many times before, the rise of on-line collaboration technology and the trend for prestigious institutions...
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One More Time: Will MOOCs Destroy Higher Education, or Improve it?
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently ran a piece reporting on efforts of faculty to chastise colleagues from other institutions who might produce Massive Open On-line Courses (MOOCs) that other...
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New Study: College May Not Be Worth it for Some Students
Yet another report on how colleges are failing our students? This one is from research conducted for the book Aspiring Adults Adrift: Tentative Transitions of College Graduates by Richard Arum and...
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How Gowns Can Learn from Towns
That’s the focus of a recent piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Geoffrey Vaughn argues that during the urban crisis of the 1960s and 1970s, city leaders lost their way–they forgot what made...
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The Changing Role of Higher Education
Over at the Chronicle of Higher Education, Dan Berrett has a piece describing how popular perceptions of higher education have been transformed over the past 40 years: Sometimes, sea changes in...
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