Our Universities: Enough to go Around
The university is a mirror of, or window to, the world. St. Paul suggested to the Church of Corinth that at times we āsee through the glass darkly.ā Things are not as sharp or bright as they should be. Soā¦
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Our Universities: Where is the Leadership?
Leonard Pitts, in an April Foolās Day editorial – no pun, just the facts – suggested that educational institutions are focused on the wrong issues. In New Yorkās public schools, dinosaur, birthday, pepperoni, and dancing, all make the NYC Departmentā¦
Our Universities: Bread and Circuses
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 requiredā¦
Our Universities: Competition
Competition for ideas is unlike competition for anything else.Ā If we compete to harvest the most gold, we find a limited supply.Ā Fastest person, physiology sets in.Ā Universities should compete for ideas, and those ideas will generate new resources. Weā¦
Our Universities: Curiosity
We tend to find what we look for. You know the old expression, if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Those students who look for an intellectual challenge find it… most universities willingly oblige them.ā¦
Our Universities: Iām Ashamed
Universities, one hopes inadvertently, are training generations to avoid responsibility for their actions. This is shameful. Such training breeds an expectation of entitlement that undermines initiative, industry, courage, self-reliance, community, and discourages students from exercising one of the greatest benefitsā¦
Our Universities: Funding Merit
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¦
Our Universities: Rising Tuition – Causes and Effects
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¦
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 themā¦
Our University ā Faculty Leadership
On our university campuses the complexities of political activity to create accountability in public resource allocations abound as performance based funding measures evolve.Ā If handled poorly, and without strong faculty leadership, these good intentions will be for naught, at best.Ā ā¦
