How to Make $60k Tuition Work
Another great flag from Robert Gibson: father of a George Washington University student is suing...
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Category: Cost of Education
The Letter i wish i would receive from my daughter’s university
The fall term is coming fast and I want you to know that YYY University will support your learning regardless of the status of the pandemic that has upended lives and killed thousands.
Today we are announcing:
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US Higher Education’s Billion-Dollar Liability
I am not a lawyer. I don’t even play one on TV. I’m a literal-minded engineer who loves education...
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A Simple Metric to Align Higher Education with the Workplace
It is now widely accepted that the job of college is to get you a job. While schools are talking...
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Procrastination
It might have been a particularly devious form of procrastination, or an excellent life hack, but...
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Contingent Faculty & Departments: Who Will Be First Out the Door?
If you’re following the alleged slow collapse of American higher education, then it’s...
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What Happens When Kids Take Over School: Unschooling the Viking Way
What would happen if kids took over their school, booted out the teachers, designed their own...
Read MoreWhy Do We Hire Universities?
Two great reads today: Ev William’s, as reported by Wired: “Here’s the formula if you want to build a billion-dollar internet company,” he said. “Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long...
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Read MoreFrayed Logic. How America Makes Excuses for College Unemployment
In “Frayed Prospects, Despite a Degree” journalist Shaila Dewan takes the mainstream media’s sob-story around employment (and unemployment) to the front pages of the New York Times. Culprits aren’t named...
Read MoreDesigned for Suffering: Student Retention Through Adaptive Pain
I was catching up on my reading and came across a wonderful essay on the economist Albert O. Hirschman (who I’d never heard of). My wife asked me what I was doing, and I said, “I’m reading this wonderful...
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