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		<title>Our Universities: Open Letter to High School Graduates</title>
		<link>http://walterwendler.com/2012/05/our-universities-open-letter-to-high-school-graduates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Graduating Senior, I must beg your pardon for a somber reflection amidst the joy of your accomplishment: not to be a wet rag on the festivities of graduation, but to shine a light on the realities of post-secondary education. &#8230; <a href="http://walterwendler.com/2012/05/our-universities-open-letter-to-high-school-graduates/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Our Universities: Passing the Buck</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 11:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wendler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leadership without spine or vision, subject to political whim, fancy, flirtation, and subjugation, will compromise, and eventually enfeeble, U.S. higher education. To watch it occur, as universities are held up as the panacea for social ills, is reckless beyond measure. Real &#8230; <a href="http://walterwendler.com/2012/05/our-universities-passing-the-buck/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Our Universities:  Enough to go Around</title>
		<link>http://walterwendler.com/2012/05/our-universities-enough-to-go-around/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 11:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wendler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The university is a mirror of, or window to, the world. St. Paul suggested to the Church of Corinth that at times we “see through the glass darkly.” Things are not as sharp or bright as they should be. So &#8230; <a href="http://walterwendler.com/2012/05/our-universities-enough-to-go-around/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Our Universities: Elitism</title>
		<link>http://walterwendler.com/2012/04/our-universities-elitism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wendler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our universities exist to educate and separate. Education is essentially a process of separation. Ignorance is separated and eliminated through insight. Students willing to submit to the process of an education should have the opportunity. This is a social obligation, &#8230; <a href="http://walterwendler.com/2012/04/our-universities-elitism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Our Universities: Transparency</title>
		<link>http://walterwendler.com/2012/04/our-universities-transparency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wendler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man, Griffin, demonstrated the chimera of ultimate transparency in his novella of 1897. Over and over we see leaders, in universities specifically but in corporate and public life generally, who act as though they can control which &#8230; <a href="http://walterwendler.com/2012/04/our-universities-transparency/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Our Universities: Outsourcing</title>
		<link>http://walterwendler.com/2012/04/our-universities-outsourcing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wendler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have seen Enterprise Rent-A-Car establishments on university campuses. Chartwells and other food providers are common sights at our institutions of higher learning. And, it has finally happened. Teaching is also being outsourced now.  Both Florida Atlantic University and Missouri &#8230; <a href="http://walterwendler.com/2012/04/our-universities-outsourcing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Our Universities: Where is the Leadership?</title>
		<link>http://walterwendler.com/2012/04/our-universities-where-is-the-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wendler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leonard Pitts, in an April Fool’s Day editorial &#8211; no pun, just the facts &#8211; suggested that educational institutions are focused on the wrong issues. In New York’s public schools, dinosaur, birthday, pepperoni, and dancing, all make the NYC Department &#8230; <a href="http://walterwendler.com/2012/04/our-universities-where-is-the-leadership/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Our Universities: Bread and Circuses</title>
		<link>http://walterwendler.com/2012/03/our-universities-bread-and-circuses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wendler</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://walterwendler.com/?p=1344</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Universities have lost their mission. Education and academic performance take a back seat to reinforcing the inflated self-concept of students and their families. We have reduced admission standards, reduced standards to progress through courses, and reduced standards of performance required &#8230; <a href="http://walterwendler.com/2012/03/our-universities-bread-and-circuses/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Our Universities: Community College Prejudice</title>
		<link>http://walterwendler.com/2012/03/our-universities-community-college-prejudice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wendler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People are concerned about community colleges. Faculty and administrators at some universities see the two-year institutions as competition. Others look down their noses at transfer students. But we better quit grousing about it and address the real issue. Students enrolled &#8230; <a href="http://walterwendler.com/2012/03/our-universities-community-college-prejudice/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Our Universities: Campuses and Systems</title>
		<link>http://walterwendler.com/2012/03/our-universities-campuses-and-systems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wendler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[University systems are political organizations. Universities are academic organizations. The two coexist symbiotically only with determined leadership. In a speech opening the legislative session, House Speaker Dean Cannon said Florida’s public university system is “racing toward the middle,” a hodgepodge &#8230; <a href="http://walterwendler.com/2012/03/our-universities-campuses-and-systems/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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