You hear it all the time in the marketing materials or tv commercials that are produced by colleges and universities to attract prospective students. One proclaims they are the school to attend because they have small class sizes. Another school points to the experienced tenured faculty as the reason to attend their school. However, in a hard-hitting article written by Kevin Carey, that appeared in Inside Higher Ed, schools can certainly make those claims but would be hard pressed to produce the data that proves it.
One of his more damning paragraphs in this article concludes that "when it comes to the central enterprise of higher education — teaching students — we don’t know if the reigning professional qualification system works, or how many professors we actually need. And this is true for all kinds of other basic elements of college teaching and learning — curricula, training, pedagogy, and much more."
To read this eye-opening article, visit the following URL and see if you don't agree. And if you do, what can we as a learning community do about it because the future success of our students depend on it http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2008/08/08/carey
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