By David Mildenberg and Pham-Duy Nguyen – Apr 16, 2011 2:45 AM PT Sat Apr 16 09:45:57 GMT 2011 Ed. As we debate taxes, would someone tell me how owning gold (0r art, yachts, houses) stimulates the US (or any) economy? The University of Texas Investment Management Co., the second-largest U.S. a[...]
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May 16th, 2011 - 8:01 am § in Schools & Colleges
Feds Replace College Faculty With Online Quizzes.
Ed: Imagine a future where a politically influenced, centralized, federal bureaucracy can put its stamp on courseware that awards credit in evolution, economics or even American History. This article in the Chronicle talks about a $2 billion dollar federal effort to develop open courseware. Th[...]
Release of Faculty-Productivity Data Roils U. of Texas
from the Chronicle of Higher Education. How much professors in the University of Texas system earn and how many courses and students they teach were parts of a vast data file that system officials compiled at the request of a newly formed task force on productivity and excellence and released public[...]
April 25th, 2011 - 1:55 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Can Community Colleges Save Students Money?
Ed. Before focusing so much on tuition, Mr. Hrabe might check out the actual cost of Harvard. Given its astonishingly large scholarship programs, the College may well be CHEAPER than your local CC. He also very much underrates the value of elite schools .. not just the Ivies but the public ivies[...]
April 25th, 2011 - 7:35 am § in Schools & Colleges
Privatizing Higher Ed in Britain?
from the Chronicle of Higher Education April 25, 2011, 11:32 am British universities that face closure as a result of financial pressure could be taken over and run by private companies, reports The Times of London. There is now only one private university in Britain, the University of Buckingham, b[...]
April 20th, 2011 - 7:43 am § in Schools & Colleges
College Tutition in UK: $10,000
Leaks say Conservative Government is raising numbers to $10,000, The Guardian estimates the real number as $14,000! from the Guardian UK (excerpted) Ministers have suffered a major blow to their tuition-fee reforms after the government’s access watchdog revealed that all universities intend [...]
Why American Education Outclasses the World.
Recently I had the “fun” of being invited to evaluate the world’s elite universities. I had read these ratings before but had not thought much about the process. One thing I REALLY tried to do was to be fair when it came to world class universities outside the US. I was especially [...]
April 19th, 2011 - 6:19 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Who is Richard Sandefer and Why Should I Care?
Sandefer is the founder of the Acton School of Business and a prime mover behind the effort in Texas to radically change the University of Texas. from Real Estate Investment Ideas No doubt the most unusual M.B.A. program in the country is run by the Acton School of Business in Texas. It is built o[...]
April 19th, 2011 - 12:14 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Is Higher Education a “Bubble?”
from The Center for College Affordability and Productivity on April 6th, 2011, by Richard Vedder Higher education is in a bubble situation-its price has risen sharply, fueled by cheap federal loan and grant money (sound familiar?) while the return on the investment has fallen. More and more college [...]
April 15th, 2011 - 8:59 am § in Schools & Colleges
(Employers) want to hire 22-year-olds who can write coherently, think creatively and analyze quantitative data, and they’re perfectly happy to hire English or biology majors.
The Default Major: Skating Through B-School Ed. I am posting this for two reasons: 1. I am not convinced “business” should be an undergraduate major anyplace. 2. the concept that courses evolve toward the easy seems ot me t be an all too obvious example of Gresham’s law. 3. The imp[...]