Based on my own closely observed experience of the unwillingness of the tenured faculty to face the hard choices posed by the institutional crisis, I believe the die is already cast. (I keep thinking of the famous opening scene of Thomas Mann’s DER ZAUBERBERG....)https://twitter.com/moiragweigel/status/1118305085598183424 …
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Universities have to take on some of the economic risk of their “products” to make it balance. That’s one reason models like lambda school are interesting. The school makes no money if the student can’t turn it into productive capability. Better than debt-funded tuition.
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I refuse to embrace the purely economic-value-added instrumentalist view of why we should care about higher education. The real question is what the "it" is that needs to be balanced.
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