By Eboo Patel. My upper middle class brown child talks about his race frequently. How do I get him to talk about his class. More...
22 avril 2018
22 avril 2018
How Far Should I Go to Get You ‘Woke’?
By Eboo Patel. Should I have tried to raise the identity consciousness of a black friend who wanted no part of it. More...
22 avril 2018
Classroom Learning and Career Preparation: Stronger Together
By Georgia Nugent. It’s a misconception to think that college study and career planning have ever been natural enemies.
Is the main purpose of education to acquire skills and prepare for the workplace? Or is the purpose more generally to expand the intellect and broaden the learner’s horizons? This dichotomy has confronted American higher education since at least the 19th century. It’s embedded in the Morrill Act of 1862, which, in providing for America’s land grant universities, also differentiated “scientific and classical studies” from “learning … related to agriculture and the mechanical arts.“ More...
22 avril 2018
Introducing 'Construction Trumps Disruption'
By Georgia Nugent. Small private colleges need to be responsive to today’s changing environment. But thoughtful and steady renewal provides a better answer than wholesale calls for “disruption.”
Disruption, for most of us, in most aspects of our lives, has not been a good thing. Consider the 1971 report from the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education, entitled, Dissent and Disruption, which confidently asserts, “Disruption … is utterly contradictory to the values and purposes of a campus…. [It] is contrary to … the rational assessment of problems and the constructive consideration of alternative solutions.” How quaint those sentiments from the ‘70s sound today. More...
22 avril 2018
Context, Redux
By Matt Reed. My Recurring Nightmare
I’ll admit to some raised eyebrows reading about the lecturer at NJIT who was recorded apparently praising Hitler in class. He claims he was taken out of context. More...
22 avril 2018
Friday Fragments - April 20, 2018
By Matt Reed. Writing and language edition.
Anya Kamenetz has a good piece at NPR about relatively traditional bachelor’s degree programs aimed at working adults. The line that won me over was David Scobey’s observation about working adult students “self-authoring” new narratives of their own lives. More...
22 avril 2018
The Intro Course
By Matt Reed. A new study finds that community college students who take an introductory course with an adjunct professor are less likely to take subsequent courses in the same discipline than students who took the intro course with a full-time professor. More...
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