Leadership withoutĀ 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. Realā¦
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 assumptionsā¦
As we move past the shortest day of the year, my thoughts turn to the eventual return of languid summer days. This column about how universities could make better use of their facilities and faculty during the summer months firstā¦
Universities must change dramatically to meet the evolving needs of their students and the workplace. But, in the process, they must not abandon their roots as places that develop the human capacity for thinking and taking action for the bettermentā¦
There is a shameful trend in higher education and other quarters of society that treats success as something to be considered with suspicion.Ā Some accuse The Occupy Wall Street crowd of holding this position, but achievement and greed are notā¦
Seventh and final in a series on state funding for higher education Value in higher education will make more thoughtful and careful students out of those in attendance.Ā People will be asking why ever more frequently.Ā Leadership better have goodā¦
Bachelorās degrees at community colleges are not a good idea.Ā Articulated transfer is a better answer but both community colleges and universities must be more responsive to the needs of student and state. Pascarella and Terenzini suggest, in Studying Collegeā¦
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 themā¦
