15 octobre 2017
15 octobre 2017
Tying the Peasants to the Land
By Matt Reed. Fifty years ago, when community colleges were springing up at the rate of one a week across the country, people were mobile and capital wasn’t. Extending education to previously underserved areas made sense because the money in those areas was likely to stay there and to grow; companies needed workers. More...15 octobre 2017
This Is What We Call a “Red Flag”
By Matt Reed. This sentence passed virtually unnoticed about a third of the way through an IHE story about a survey it had done of college and university financial officers. To me, it jumped off the screen. More...15 octobre 2017
Myths
15 octobre 2017
Footnotes
15 octobre 2017
When Neutrality Isn’t an Option
By Matt Reed. Community colleges serve people with very different political perspectives, and that’s by design. Their mission is to take all comers, and to serve the needs of the entire community. That means working with people from different backgrounds, with different tastes and different politics. More...15 octobre 2017
Accessibility (the other kind)
By Matt Reed. The postmodernist trend of the 90’s had its strengths, but one of its greatest flaws was a semi-intentional premium on incomprehensibility. When you’re supposed to show your sophistication with terms like “always already” and “overdetermined,” simple statements come across as naive. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)