Tuesday, May 31, 2011

The Future of Higher Ed?

I was alerted to two articles that speak to the future of higher education and they are both sobering.  Perhaps you are an administrator or a faculty member who is experiencing some of what is being talked about in the articles.  Either way, there is a concerted effort to cheapen what educators do in this country and if we do not take a stand we will find ourselves to be falling further and further behind Inda, China, and the rest of the world that is taking a bolder brighter path to educate its people and compete and win for the future.

Read the first article at appeared in the Nation by William Deresiewicz--"Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education" http://www.thenation.com/article/160410/faulty-towers-crisis-higher-education

The second appeared in the Chronicle and penned by Margaret Miller:
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Profession-More-Pressure/123918/

Lecture heureuse!

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