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: 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: Certification
In many cases, a college diploma has come to represent exposure to certain experiences rather than individual learning and accomplishment. Absent gross misconduct, everybody passes. The degree is simply a totem of club membership rather than an indication of aā¦
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: Tenure and the Marketplace
Stanley Fish, writing in the New York Times Opinionator online July 11, 2011, comments extensively on the relationship of tenure, academic freedom, and current university life in response to a book by Naomi Schaefer Riley entitled, āThe Faculty Lounges: Andā¦
Our Universities: Bubbles
The words of the popular early twentieth century song Iām Forever Blowing Bubbles may reflect the spirit of the challenges in the housing and education sectors of the U.S. economy better than most twenty-first century economists – I’m dreaming dreams,ā¦
Our University: Apprenticeship for Faculty
From any perspective performance should be central to the work of faculty.Ā Not performance judged by administration, but performance judged by peers. Nothing else ensures relevancy and quality of judgment. From the time of Platoās Academy and Aristotleās Lyceum, academicā¦
Our University: Layers of Advocacy
Unions have helped create positive working conditions in this country that would have been unimaginable 100 years ago.Ā One needs look no further than the history of the development of the Fair Labor Standards Act for proof.Ā Every major advanceā¦
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¦
Our University ā Race, Ethnicity and Other Forces
Our University ā Race, Ethnicity and Other Forces Seventh in a series of who our students are and how they perform. The factors that influence ethnic and racial diversity in universities are many: Ā wealth; preparation; ability, whether innate or learned;ā¦
