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Time enough for love … of learning: more on credit (hours)
Matt Reed has responded twice to my observations last month about competencies and credit hours. First, he directly responded to my proposal that we just strike the word “hour” from the phrase “credit hour:” If we just declare that credits mean whatever a given provider says they mean, then there’s no basis for denying federal […]
How to kill a good report by using Excel
My brain is hurting this afternoon, because someone decided to use a stacked bar chart for two figures in the brand-new Georgetown Center for Education and Workforce report on employment and salary data for different undergraduate degrees, written by Anthony Carnevale and Ban Cheah. Here is the chart on unemployment data for different clusters of […]
Quick review of Jeff Selingo’s “College (Un)bound”
Jeff Selingo’s new book, College (Un)bound, came out last week. Very brief version of this post: buy it if you want a compilation of good reporting on higher education. You should expect to enjoy it as long as you bring the salt shaker for when Selingo becomes prescriptive.
The ha’penny competency
I have a bridge to sell, quite cheap. All it will cost you is the following: One halfpenny (British, before metric conversion) Three drachmas One lira Three euros One franc (French) Four thalers (the coin, not the economist) One escudo One ekwele Ten qirans Five kroons One hundred C.S.A. dollars (paper bills only) When I […]
Past practice and other arcane collective-bargaining matters
Now that the spring semester is over, it’s time for me to catch up on a bunch of reading. In the current-higher-ed-commentary genre, I just finished Matt Reed’s Confessions of a Community College Administrator, and am looking forward to Jeff Selingo’s College (Un)bound, which came out this week. I thoroughly enjoyed Reed’s book, though I […]