Vivek Wadhwa, Duke College of engineering Ed. Prof. Wadha writes about a dilemma. While he feels strongly that the humanities are essential for educating creative people in his discipline, graduates of humanities programs have huge trouble being employed. He noted that 63% of the CEOs or heads[...]
Archive for March 22nd, 2011
March 22nd, 2011 - 10:58 pm § in America, Schools & Colleges
Engineering vs. liberal arts: Who’s right — Bill or Steve?
March 22nd, 2011 - 10:03 pm § in America
Is MaBell Back?
Ed. We all made fun of MaBell .. she was a monopoly Then came court decisions and the internet phone. Free enterprise was great, while it lasted. from Bloomberg AT&T Inc. (T) agreed to buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE) for about $39 billion in cash and stock to create America’s[...]
March 22nd, 2011 - 1:55 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Computer Science at an Online University, Western Governors University,
Ed. Michael Stiber, a UW professor on Computer Science at Western Governors University,” has written a brief review of the offerings in Computer Science at WGU. This is important because Comp Sci, Nursing and K-12 teacher education are the three areas where WGU claims to have considerable stre[...]
March 22nd, 2011 - 1:24 pm § in Misc.
$100,000,000 given to public universitry to establish private medica school!
from Huff Post KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Donors have given Western Michigan University $100 million to launch a private medical school. University President John Dunn says it is one of the largest cash gifts donated to a U.S. university. Dunn said Tuesday that the money will serve as “foundation fu[...]
March 22nd, 2011 - 6:28 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
WGU’s model for “online education.” There IS a better way.
Ed. The discussion the last couple of days here has referred to “online education” as if that were some sort of magic. BroadWebcast a lecture, add some mulitple choice questions and … you are ONLINE! This sort of computer based learning is just a sad extension of the overlo0asded c[...]