The relationship of a student to the university is a bit like a marriage. The idea of that relationship is shifting as George Bernard Shaw predicted it would. As with marriage, the university experience is becoming a contractualĀ affiliation rather thanā¦
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¦
Second in a series on state funding for higher education Historically, while state contributions to the total operating budgets of universities have increased as a percentage of all spending, tuition has remained a roughly stable percentage of all operating costs.Ā ā¦
The quality of the educational experience and the earning power of degrees attained are the purview and responsibility of each student and family who enter the educational marketplace.Ā It is a marketplace where ideas of value (hopefully) are exchanged forā¦
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 aā¦
