Comments | confessionalbox: more on the selling out of higher ed

confessionalbox

more on the selling out of higher ed

Apr 29, 2006 14:49

I recently did some research for a satirical novel set at a university. The idea was to have a bunch of gags about how colleges prostitute themselves to improve their U.S. News & World Report rankings and keep up a healthy supply of tuition-paying students, while wrapping their craven commercialism in high-minded-sounding academic blather ( Read more... )

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spatialrift47 April 29 2006, 20:06:17 UTC

Um ... wow. That's just ... I have no words. Damn. And we wonder why the American education system is in the shitter.

confessionalbox April 30 2006, 14:11:33 UTC

I hear ya

shinran April 30 2006, 00:07:35 UTC

I could use some good cups of coffee, though.

I was choking when I saw a tv ad for my own uni during the past olympic (not sure if that was a national ad or just a regional one, but). I feel uneasy about universities selling themselves as if they were some kind of commodity (and the students becoming the consumer). Education is earned, not paid for, isn't it? Well, maybe I'm being overly naive, but I hope that I'm in grad school not because I was rich enough but I was smart enough:(

you may want to read some responses by Case professors... managementprof April 30 2006, 09:08:57 UTC

like Professor Singham's...

or Professor Whiting's...

or mine (here).

Re: you may want to read some responses by Case professors... confessionalbox April 30 2006, 14:11:08 UTC

appreciated!.. my complaint with it is not the seminar idea, although I am wary of that.. I know how unproductive graduate seminars can be, I shudder to think of undergrad ones

my complaint was in the clips from the guide to how they are to be taught. It just seems like pushing it a bit further than I would be comfortable with. The whole exploring the reasons for class disruption rubbed me wrong. Personally I have no problem with fidgeting or students coming and going as long as they don't distract others, but chatting in class is a bit much.

theoryladen June 15 2006, 00:04:14 UTC

Hi, it's me, formerly known as shinran aka yuko.
I just created a new journal and ditched my old one.
Add me:) Pretty please?

confessionalbox June 15 2006, 00:06:28 UTC

done :) why ditch the old one?

theoryladen June 15 2006, 00:07:19 UTC

spring cleaning.