I put 'Republican', because that's how I'm registered. But in reality, I consider myself basically an independent. It was just that when I...
CCSF puts the number at around 90,000. CCSF Home Page I think that it's probably somewhat less now, since the news broke that accreditation...
That might arguably be true when it comes to temporary adjunct teaching gigs in high-demand subjects at low-end schools. But when it comes to...
A DA like this one might conceivably be of use to community college instructors in humanities subjects who are looking for an upgrade degree that...
Here's some relevant parts of Ann's original post: It appears to me like Ann was excited by this thing in large part because it's a broadly...
It seems to me that if people want to make comparisons between community colleges and for-profit career colleges, they should be apples-to-apples...
I'm an interdisciplinary humanities kind of guy myself. After doing my MA, I toyed with the idea of doing a doctorate and this was one of the...
The Sunday March 16 'San Francisco Chronicle' has an extraordinary story about UCSF professor Dr. Ephraim P. Engleman, Director of the Rosalind...
My layman's sense is that the phrase 'adjunct professor' refers to additional teachers, supplemental to a university's own teaching staff, who are...
There have been quite a few threads over the years about this thing. Here's one that features some seemingly well-informed comments from somebody...
Yeah, it's hard to break into full-time, tenure-track university teaching in most subjects. So a certain kind of person who has all of his/her...
It's not a "small joke", it's a sarcastic and to my mind profoundly anti-intellectual dismissal.
San Francisco's for-profit Academy of Art University has also been a member of NCAA Division II for years. (It has to be just about the only...
American universities and employers typically treat them as the equivalent of an American BA. It's a new university in Scotland, so most...
When I did the CSUDH Humanities MA, it cost me $4,200. But that was years ago. Currently it charges $256/unit x 30 units, totalling $7,680....
Broadens it. The word "enrichment" itself suggests that students who use the word think that they are receiving some sort of value from doing it....
I've written about that. I'm very passionate about it, since it's always been my primary motivation for learning, and right now, it's the only...
Perhaps I'm a minority of one here on Degreeinfo, but I'm convinced that higher education has intellectual rewards as well, that in some cases...
Yet the conclusion always seems to simply be that students should not study the traditional academic subjects (history, philosophy, literature,...
Some of the medieval universities were descendents of the monasteries and cathedral schools. Even architecturally, the university quadrangle is an...
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