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The “high cost of higher ed” is in fact not going to college (and in not going to class)

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David Leonhardt asks “Is College Worth It?,” and finds that the pay gap between college grads and people without college is at an all-time high.  Fortunately, he sings one of my favorite songs here too: [The] public discussion today — for which we in the news media deserve some responsibility — often focuses on the … Continue reading The “high cost of higher ed” is in fact not going to college (and in not going to class)

Finally, some reasoned analysis of the so-called “high cost of higher ed”

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This strikes me as a sensible intervention into the typically un-nuanced conversation about the price of a four-year undergraduate degree.  And what’d’ya know–it’s from a panel of admissions officers, the kind of people whose job it is to know their target audience and to recruit and retain students? Steven Graff, senior director of admissions and … Continue reading Finally, some reasoned analysis of the so-called “high cost of higher ed”

The net effect of the "high cost of higher ed" argument

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This is the first of the 2010-2011 academic year’s series, Excellence Without Money(a term coined by the b!tchez at Roxie’s World in their series on the high cost of not funding higher education.)  For the full archives at both blogs, click away on those links, darlings. I’ve been doing a little thinking about the effects of … Continue reading The net effect of the "high cost of higher ed" argument

Speaking of bubbles, the “higher ed bubble” bubble has popped, just in time for spring semester classes

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Hey–remember all of those stories that were written at the depths of the Great Recession back in 2008-2010 about “the high cost of higher education,” warning young people not to waste their time or money on college degrees because all of these elite university grads from the 1970s and 1980s were confident that higher ed … Continue reading Speaking of bubbles, the “higher ed bubble” bubble has popped, just in time for spring semester classes

Why $0.78 on the dollar is probably still a high estimate of women’s compensation

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We’re definitely underpaid, ladies, considering the extra layer of bull$h!t we have to deal with in the course of just doing our jobs.  Read on for a fascinating illustration of the costs of doing business when you have a female name and internet profile. Some of us have been having fun on the interwebs recently … Continue reading Why $0.78 on the dollar is probably still a high estimate of women’s compensation

Great prediction, Carnac: a brief history of the future of online education

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One of the great things about blogging for the better part of a decade is that you can hold people accountable for the silly things they once said, or wrote, and presumably believed. Do you remember 2010?  Like yesterday?  Here’s columnist Froma Harrop on September 21, 2010: Bill Gates recently predicted: “Five years from now … Continue reading Great prediction, Carnac: a brief history of the future of online education

Education round-up: the suck it up edition

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Friendly greeting!  Comments on the local weather, and humorous story about my weekend plans.  Here we go: Denver second grade teacher Austen Kassinger says that struggle is inherent to learning, and that parents need to push their children to achieve by owning that struggle.  After spending an entire evening working through five long-division problems in … Continue reading Education round-up: the suck it up edition

The so-called “liberal” academic workplace

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Just go read this description of a job interview in a humanities program at a rich SLAC.  The search Chair told our informant, Anonymous, that the young African American woman on the faculty had been denied tenure.  Some flava: Dr. Chair explained that the whole process had been very unpleasant and that the aforementioned white … Continue reading The so-called “liberal” academic workplace

Historiann stumbles out of the wilderness to find the Lords of MOOC creation have successfully placed an advertorial in the Washington Post

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Does this read like a Coursera or Udacity press realease to you, too? Whether for good or ill, MOOCs augur a disruption of the relationships among students, colleges and trade schools, and the credentials those schools offer — a relationship that has stabilized higher education for at least a century. Yet if done right — … Continue reading Historiann stumbles out of the wilderness to find the Lords of MOOC creation have successfully placed an advertorial in the Washington Post

Just another occasion to feel entirely alienated from American culture and values

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Baa Ram U. announced that tuition next year will increase by 9%, making the cost of one year at my university for Colorado residents the princely sum of $7,494.  Unfortunately, the Denver Post buried the lede in the final paragraph, in which the uni’s president notes that “‘If you’re the one writing the check for … Continue reading Just another occasion to feel entirely alienated from American culture and values