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Title: Former University President Nails Many of Higher Education’s Ills
Post by: rangerrebew on March 13, 2019, 05:27:21 pm

Former University President Nails Many of Higher Education’s Ills
Feb 27, 2019 George Leef 

Often, the strongest criticisms of higher education come from insiders. One insider is Daniel Johnson, who retired as president of the University of Toledo in 2006 after an academic career that included several senior leadership positions. He has recently published a book, The Uncertain Future of American Public Higher Education, that illuminates many of the worst problems besetting higher ed.

Much of Johnson’s analysis is excellent, but he misfires on some. I will start with the book’s best sections.

While some of our higher education traditions are sound, many others, Johnson argues, are outmoded. They lead to “unaffordable costs for students, ineffective and inefficient delivery of instruction, and failure to adapt to advanced, lower cost, and more effective technologies and methods.”

https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2019/02/former-university-president-nails-many-of-higher-educations-ills/ (https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2019/02/former-university-president-nails-many-of-higher-educations-ills/)

Title: Re: Former University President Nails Many of Higher Education’s Ills
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 13, 2019, 06:23:58 pm

Consider that while some people are whining about 'trigger words' and 'safe spaces' and how hard they have it in college...others their age are working on oil rigs in all sorts of weather, in shifts that go around the clock.