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Category Archives: Higher Education
Can’t you NOT meet a nice young lawyer…
Among the tensions in higher education are expensive professional schools supplying graduates with higher debt loads than their industries can bear. Recent revelations include legal graduates describing their law schools as ponzi schemes and paper mills, as detailed in this piece. … Continue reading
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Are liberal arts pricing themselves out of existence?
An engaging piece which both decries the diminishing attraction of a liberal arts education and yet lays some responsibility for the shift at the very universities for whom liberal arts are the foundational core. The money shot: It has by now become … Continue reading
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State beats Ivy
As a continuation of the discussion of the value of a college education comes the revelation that many companies are more actively recruiting and hiring students from state schools than from the Ivies. And, as the article notes, the underlying economics are thus: College tuition … Continue reading
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Tenure: An idea whose time has gone?
Megan McArdle’s recent piece in The Atlantic makes this claim. My favorite part was her response to the argument that it is tenure that allows professors to produce important research: How about valuable scholarship? Well, define valuable–in many liberal arts fields, the … Continue reading
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Student debt data chilling
A chilling article in the NYT on both the ease and amount of debt for many students who choose higher education: Today, however, Ms. Munna, a 26-year-old graduate of New York University, has nearly $100,000 in student loan debt from her four years in … Continue reading
College one-two punch
Two fascinating articles. The first is a futuristic view of online higher education: In less than two months, she had finished four complete courses, for less than $200 total. The same courses would have cost her over $2,700 at Northeastern Illinois, $4,200 … Continue reading
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Roads to somewhere
In contrast to the blabble in the usually excellent NYT, a colleague alerted me to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Ed which also addresses some of the difficulties facing higher ed — particularly with the economic crises: Is it possible that higher … Continue reading
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