He says that like it's a bad thing https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2016/08/12/dangers-uberization-higher-education-essay
As these issues affect or determine who gets to learn, what they learn and how and where it is learned - I think they are important. J.
Waning? Changing, I think. The sheer money involved - from big-school endowments to trillion-plus student debt - is formidable. Large debts and large deposits usually tend to grow, rather than wane. Indeed, learning is most important and I think the value of a degree is in what was taught and learned, not in the price paid for it. I suspect you might agree, there. Unfortunately, money-matters have often served as an obnoxious and inept gatekeeper - keeping people "out" who should be "in" and vice-versa. Much of the money is not directed to learning. Too much lines the pockets of sports coaches, those holding high administrative office, predatory lenders, builders of fancy edifices and stadiums etc. Many schools lost their fiscal compass long ago -- and they have yet to look into GPS. Yes, the current model is an artificial construct - that lives on huge amounts of cash. While it lives, it still has far-reaching effects, as I mentioned in my last post. I think the beast is far from its end - but it is changing. Not nearly fast enough for my liking, though. J.
I've nothing to argue with here. I'd add that it's not just highly placed administrators proliferating in higher ed but the total number of administrators. There is an office for everything but Silly Walks and that's probably coming.
Office of Silly Walks - Cornell and Princeton respond. :smile: "Now , in the prestigious Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical and Physical and Engineering Sciences, a detailed mathematical analysis of walking and running is given by Dr. Manoj Srinivasan of Princeton University and Professor Andy Ruina of Cornell University, New York that sheds new light on the silly walk." Here it is: http://movement.osu.edu/press/prsa1/telegraph.pdf At least these two professors' recommendations are against opening an Office of Silly Walks. What a relief! :smile: Hopefully, other schools will adopt the same policy. J.
