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The American Historical Association Tuning project
In February, the American Historical Association announced its discipline-wide “Tuning” project with a grant from the Lumina Foundation. Based on previous work in the European Balogna process and a U.S. pilot project in history in Utah, the AHA will be formulating a generic list of what students leaving various history programs should know and be […]
Assignment realities at community colleges and public research universities
David C. Levy’s screed at the Washington Post this weekend is typical of crankiness among some of those who don’t know much about higher education, believing that face time with students is the bulk of time that faculty teach in higher ed. More than that, he went after community college faculty as the place to push […]
Anticipatory Schadenfreude rhetoric
In an essay in The New Republic, Kevin Carey has apparently joined the disruptiness gang: Many factors explain the endurance of higher education institutions—the ascent of the knowledge economy, their crucial role in upper-middle class acculturation, our peculiar national enthusiasm for college sports—but the single greatest asset held by traditional colleges and universities is their […]
A society with and without schooling
Tyler Cowen’s discussion of higher education value is one plausible way to answer the question, What is the benefit of higher education? It’s now common that a fire chief has to have a master’s degree. That may sound silly and it would be easy to think that a master’s degree has not very much to do […]
Education politics in Florida
A recent Tampa Bay Times ((That new name still feels so wrong.)) wonderful story on the politics of education in Florida somehow squeezed into a few column inches the various topics required: legislative arrogance, regional parochialism, the public interest in higher education, the jobs connections of legislators in higher ed, and the occasional twinges of regret (such […]