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¦
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¦
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¦
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¦
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¦