Students – Page 5 – Reflections On Higher Education

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Our Universities: Traditions

Universities are defined by their traditions. They can take many forms, some positive, and some negative, but all communities have traditions shaped by citizens who reside there, and a university is a community. Traditions cannot be regulated or imposed, but…

Our Universities: Donner Party Politics

Unbridled, ill-conceived, or poorly implemented regulation often creates undesirable outcomes. Legislators refer to such results as unintended consequences. Sometimes, such consequences are the result of well-meant actions, imposed by parties unfamiliar with the underlying complexity of a situation. When assumptions…

Our Universities: Serving Whom

Universities must change. The culture of college needs to evolve, particularly with regard to “perverse institutional incentives” that reward colleges for enrolling and retaining students rather than for educating them. “It’s a problem when higher education is driven by a…

Our University: Beating High Costs

Who cares about students as higher education becomes big business? The Justice Department plans to intervene in a whistle-blower lawsuit charging that one of the nation’s largest for-profit college companies, the Education Management Corporation, defrauded the government by illegally paying…

Our University: In State Out of State

Costs are always relative and secondary to value.Ā  Governments cannot make universities by enactments of laws: Nor corporations by erections of edifices:Ā  The church cannot create them under the authority of heaven:Ā  The flattering eulogies of orators cannot adorn them…

Our University: Great Expectations

Our University: Great Expectations In a New York Times piece on February 18, 2009, by Max Roosevelt entitled Student Expectations Seen as Causing Grade Disputes, James Hogge, associate dean of the Peabody School of Education at Vanderbilt University is quoted.…

Our University – Priorities and Product

Universities must compete for students through excellence and quality.Ā  There is no substitute for competition in creating excellence, and it should be the highest priority for any institution of higher education. Governments cannot make universities by enactments of laws: Nor…

Our University – Loyalty

Eighth and final in a series of who our students are and how they perform. Appreciating different perspectives diminishes neither loyalty nor purpose, but enriches both. Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not…

Our University: Enrollment and Gender

Second in a series on who our students are and how they perform. Great universities help people come into their own.Ā  Intellectual, spiritual, emotional, and moral development is always a personal matter but good learning environments are catalysts for the…

Our University – Coaching

I was reading a piece about the ā€œBig Danceā€ and how important it is to a university.Ā  For the uninitiated few, the Big Dance is the annual NCAA basketball tournament that some feel will boost college enrollments, solve fiscal problems,…

Our University – Reverse Transfer

Reverse transfer is the growing phenomenon of students leaving a four-year institution, like our university, and going to community colleges.Ā  This is called reverse transfer because; when community colleges were initially established the purpose was for technical training, adult education,…

Our University and Alcohol Consumption

Any good university is concerned first and foremost, now and always, with academic excellence.Ā  That is our purpose. 128 university presidents signed onto The Amethyst Initiative, a recent effort suggesting the drinking age should be lowered to 18. The primary…

Our University – Graduation

A farmer plants crops.Ā Ā The seasons, and the sun, the rain, the soil, all work in combination to bring forth fruit from sown seed.Ā Ā At this juncture in the university calendar what we do feels a bit like farming…and its harvest time.…

Campus Life for Students

The ability of our university to reach full potential and to engender in students a concentrated and powerful academic experience rests with the nature of the campus as a place to live, as well as a place to study. Ideally,…

Our Graduate Students

We are conditioned to think ā€œundergraduateā€ when we hear the words ā€œcollege student.ā€ When we think of growing our university to more ably serve a greater number of students you can feel the predisposition building, we are thinking of freshman…

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