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What You Need To Know About For-Profit Colleges
The Chronicle of Higher Ed published just today another nightmare story about practices at a for-profit college: Corinthian. Fortunately, this one is on the verge of closing anyhow, but you need to take heed, because Corinthian College isn’t alone among for-profit institutions in the use of criminal practices. But before we talk about for-profit colleges,Continue reading “What You Need To Know About For-Profit Colleges”
Why MOOCs Aren’t for College Credit and Shouldn’t Be
Number 1 reason: the business world is made up of perhaps hundreds of millions of human interactions that take place on a daily basis. If college study doesn’t give students regular opportunities for human interaction, college study will not prepare graduates for the workforce. And now we have empirical research supporting what we should haveContinue reading “Why MOOCs Aren’t for College Credit and Shouldn’t Be”
An Era of Neglect – Special Reports – The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education is running a series of articles in this issue about the state of higher education and the history that led us to its current state. The short version is that economic downturns and private sector commitments to paying as little taxes as possible has led to cuts in state budgets.Continue reading “An Era of Neglect – Special Reports – The Chronicle of Higher Education”
A Humanist Apologizes to Numbers – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Fun read by a creative writing professor about his relationship to numbers. I think the recent institutional separation of arts and sciences causes us to forget the historical relationship between the two. The original seven liberal arts consisted of three studies of language and ideas, the trivium — grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic — while theContinue reading “A Humanist Apologizes to Numbers – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education”
The Philosophy of Contemporary Song 