Higher education is a hot topic because it’s so familiar and so easy to criticize. Even if you haven’t gone to college, you get what it’s about. And the complaints – about tuition, about culture, about curriculum – happen on campus, too, and louder. Here are six articles that prompted discussions inside the Ivory Tower this week.
1. Professors, We Need You! (Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, February 16, 2014)
Academics used to be a part of public discourse, and now they’re not. Blame them.
As usual, it’s about audience.
Graduate programs can be revenue generators, but not when enrollment goes down.
4. Is Faster Always Better? (Katherine Mangan, The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 17, 2014)
High-school students take accelerated classes for college credit. But once on campus, they can struggle to keep up.
Fraternities thrive at colleges thanks to a culture that markets them and a risk-management system that protects them.
“How do you report sexual assault at a place where authorities seem skeptical that such a thing even exists?”
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