drifting, drifting toward a BA
is what is happening to most of undergraduate education as fewer and fewer faculty can come to a consensus on what should be taught, what should learned in the four, five, six years it takes now to get a BA.
Read this for a brief historical overview of how University education in the US -- How much for that BA? is not the title of this New York Review of Books piece, but it's part I of II articles on the state of higher education in the US and it accounts for what has been lost in our vision of University education as the University has become more business-like in its processes of democratization.
As I have written here, University administrations are much more interested in attracting "stars" to their faculty than making real changes in improving the quality of undergraduate education. Even in business, the hiring of stars has been proven to be less than effective in improving a company's performance.
See where Rakesh Khurana author of Searching for a Corporate Savior blogs.
Not only are University Administrations imitating businesses, they are imitating bad businesses that overpay executives who are treated like minor godheads at the expense of the regular payroll and stockholders alike -- until the magic wears off -- as in the cases of Carley Fiorina or Michael Ovitz.
As in the case of invisible government subsidies of private enterprise when public cultural institutions are turned to corporate and private interests as took place in the 80s and 90s with Reagan's and Thatcher's encouragement of business giving to the arts, private Universities are receiving all kinds of tax breaks, even though as in the case of Harvard, they are for all intents and purposes private enterprises with brands and investments to protect.
Read this for a brief historical overview of how University education in the US -- How much for that BA? is not the title of this New York Review of Books piece, but it's part I of II articles on the state of higher education in the US and it accounts for what has been lost in our vision of University education as the University has become more business-like in its processes of democratization.
As I have written here, University administrations are much more interested in attracting "stars" to their faculty than making real changes in improving the quality of undergraduate education. Even in business, the hiring of stars has been proven to be less than effective in improving a company's performance.
See where Rakesh Khurana author of Searching for a Corporate Savior blogs.
Not only are University Administrations imitating businesses, they are imitating bad businesses that overpay executives who are treated like minor godheads at the expense of the regular payroll and stockholders alike -- until the magic wears off -- as in the cases of Carley Fiorina or Michael Ovitz.
As in the case of invisible government subsidies of private enterprise when public cultural institutions are turned to corporate and private interests as took place in the 80s and 90s with Reagan's and Thatcher's encouragement of business giving to the arts, private Universities are receiving all kinds of tax breaks, even though as in the case of Harvard, they are for all intents and purposes private enterprises with brands and investments to protect.
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