Don’t be distracted by the lurid, even bizarre, events narrated at the start of the article. What it’s really about is the organizational distortion of
A Modest Suggestion for GE Reform
From Majoring in the 21st Century blog… When, as is usually the case, nobody has actually put forward a coherent critique that exposes what’s wrong
Four Modest Suggestions for General Education Reform
Tell Them Why I Develop coherent and persuasive description of why we have a GE program and what it is supposed to achieve. Address it
Advising Parents of Soon-to-be-College-Students
One way to pop oneself out of one’s institutional bubble is to listen in on conversations among the folks whose attention (and dollars) we are
Joint Humanities & Computer Science Majors at Stanford
From the Chronicle of Higher Education (21 March 2014)
What the Survey Did Not Ask
I recently spent a half an hour filling out yet another higher education survey instrument. Lots to say about methodological issues, but also about content.
