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  • What Is the Point of College?
    The New York Times

    What Is the Point of College?

    I gave my first university lecture in philosophy at the University of Ghana, Legon, when I was a freshly credentialed 21-year-old. My audience was a couple of hundred students gathered in a vast hall, with ceiling fans to move the hot and humid air.

    Sep 8, 2015

    Is It Time to Tax Harvard’s Endowment?
    Slate.com

    Is It Time to Tax Harvard’s Endowment?

    “The joke about Harvard is that it’s a hedge fund with a university attached to it,” Mark Schneider tells me. It’s a quip that, for obvious reasons, has become pretty popular in recent years. In 2014, the university’s legendary endowment, overseen by a team of in-house experts and spread across a mind-bending array of investments that range from stocks and bonds to California wine vineyards, hit $36.4 billion.

    Sep 8, 2015

    Higher Education’s Internet Outrage Machine
    Chronicle of Higher Education

    Higher Education’s Internet Outrage Machine

    Campus Reform carefully tracks how well it creates headaches in academe. On a dry-erase board in its offices here, the online publication tallies numbers related to its mission of exposing liberal "bias and abuse" at American colleges. In mid-August, the board showed that so far this year it had published more than 530 articles, seven of which had been featured by the Drudge Report, an online conservative news hub that drives big audiences.

    Sep 8, 2015

    U. of Georgia Bets $4.4 Million That Small Classes Can Bolster Learning
    Chronicle of Higher Education

    U. of Georgia Bets $4.4 Million That Small Classes Can Bolster Learning

     

    The University of Georgia, seeking to improve the classroom experience of its undergraduates, has begun a faculty hiring spree to reduce enrollments in hundreds of courses. The university will hire 56 full-time, teaching-focused lecturers and professors over this academic year. It is one of several recent efforts at the research-focused institution to improve its educational environment. Others include the creation of a series of freshman seminars and the requirement that incoming students participate in a hands-on learning experience.

    Sep 8, 2015

    College Calculus
    The New Yorker

    College Calculus

     

    Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School is quoted about his book Will College Pay Off?

    Sep 7, 2015

    Warning: My Class Is One Big Trigger
    Huffington Post

    Warning: My Class Is One Big Trigger

    Jonathan Moreno of the School or Arts & Sciences and the Perelman School of Medicine blogs about the topics that will be covered in his bioethics course and about not being stifled by providing a warning to students that some topics might be upsetting.

    Sep 7, 2015