WOMEN IN TECH Some Universities Crack Code in Drawing Women to Computer ScienceJULY 17, 2014Claire Cain Miller One of the reasons so few women work
Category: Ideas
Know the Bandwagon You are Jumping on
Its boosters are certain that competency-based education is the next “disruptive innovation” in higher education. This article in the Chronicle of Higher Education is a
Administrative Expansion and Faculty Contraction: Not a New Story
This article on the inordinate growth of higher ed administration was getting a lot of Twitter action yesterday though it’s from February. We wrote about
The Conversation about Free College Continues
This NPR piece does a pretty good job of getting on the table the tangle of issues that surrounds the cost of education question. If
FAFSA Dreams
Mention “FAFSA” to people in certain circles and you’ll get an earful coming back at you. FAFSA stands for Free Application for Federal Student Aid;
Why Take a Detour…
…on the road from youth to career? Another story about “alternatives” to college. Those of us who toil in the fields of conventional academe don’t
