Higher Education, Its Golden Age and Future

By Tracy Mitrano. Part I:  Notions of the “Golden Age”
The bookends are before us! Clay Shirky has declared the end of the golden age of higher education http://www.shirky.com/weblog/ while Cathy Davidson is teaching us about the Future of (Mostly) Higher Education.
I don’t know about “golden age” per se, but I agree we are in a new stage.  A historian of higher education, I suspect that probably every age thought of itself as “golden.”   Twelfth century Europe, for example, was a high-water mark for Catholic medieval scholarship.  Ox-bridge education ruled the world when the sun never set on the British Empire. Read more...