{"id":386,"date":"2005-09-21T11:36:13","date_gmt":"2005-09-21T15:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=386"},"modified":"2005-09-21T11:36:13","modified_gmt":"2005-09-21T15:36:13","slug":"tensions-in-higher-ed-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"Tensions in higher-ed debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erin O&#8217;Connor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goactablog.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/index.html#000075\">is onto something<\/a> in her discussion of this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/weekly\/v52\/i05\/05b02001.htm\">Chronicle of Higher Ed article<\/a> reporting a study of college student&#8217;s career orientation and lack of interest in a liberal education, and how a liberal education may well be at odds with the world-competitiveness language accompanying the announcement of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2005\/09\/21\/commission\">blue-ribbon commission on higher-ed directions in the U.S.<\/a> Only one quibble: O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s claim that liberal education <em>is clearly disappearing<\/em> is a standard myth of declension, assuming that there was some mythical Golden Age when college students gladly focused on a liberal education, when faculty taught it (well), and when everyone agreed on what a liberal education <em>was<\/em>.<br \/>\n(And now, back to the grind of grading for me, and then editorial stuff, indexing, &#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erin O&#8217;Connor is onto something in her discussion of this week&#8217;s Chronicle of Higher Ed article reporting a study of college student&#8217;s career orientation and lack of interest in a liberal education, and how a liberal education may well be at odds with the world-competitiveness language accompanying the announcement of a blue-ribbon commission on higher-ed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-6e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}