Barry schwartz colbert report11/26/2023 ![]() Since nonprofit institutions of higher education follow a balanced-budget model, expenditures are capped by revenues. Yet society has provided higher education with a river of new real revenues over the past several decades. At the same time, public colleges complain that they are being squeezed by declining state support and increasing pressure to educate larger numbers of less-prepared students. People feel squeezed between the cost and the necessity. Surveys reveal that the public believes a college education is essential but too expensive. Continue reading “Is Cheating by Colleges Just Another Clever Marketing Ploy?” Author Brooke Allen Posted on AugCategories Critical Thinking (Institution), Critical University Studies, Ethics, Q4Colleges, US News College Ranking, Values 2 Comments on Is Cheating by Colleges Just Another Clever Marketing Ploy? Colleges Cost Too Much Because Faculty Lacks Power Since integrity is such a major part of character, confessed cheating should drop you to Dead Last in the rankings, and a cover-up should get you barred altogether pending review by the accrediting authorities. News only serves to prove that their ranking methodology is deeply flawed. 20) and would likely have had a small to negligible effect in the several years prior.” (Read the article here.) The publisher said that, “Our preliminary calculations show that the misreported data would not have changed the school’s ranking in the past two years (No. News & World Report’s Best Colleges rankings. ![]() Should “caveat emptor” be the operative philosophy when we market to students, or should we hold ourselves to a higher standard than, say, a car manufacturer?Įmory University confessed that for 11 years it has been fudging data it sent in for U. For while I excelled at thwarting some bullets, I had zero talent for dodging the countless shots I administered to myself.Īs with most things scholastic, bulletproofing starts Continue reading “Not Quite Bulletproof” Author Brooke Allen Posted on SeptemCategories Critical Thinking (Self), Ethics, History, Inspiration, Notre Dame, Values, Wisdom 2 Comments on Not Quite Bulletproof My Mission is to Use My Talents and Help Others do the Same And if you want a Kevlar career, do as I say, not as I did. To get a job, to surmount third-year review, to receive tenure, to advance to full professorship, to merit a Wikipedia page that you didn’t write yourself, all you need to be is bulletproof. Instead concentrate on blocking projectiles. ![]() Save your supersonic speed, your laser-beam eyeballs, and your ability to communicate with sea life for emergencies and holiday parties. To rise in academe and reach the high ground where review committees stop questioning your record and deans quit pondering your trajectory, where students applaud when you close out the semester with your lecture on the War of 1812 and Stephen Colbert invites you on his Report to plug your book, one must cultivate an entry-level superpower. ![]() If past experience were a guide, I could name Continue reading “Photocopy My Book Chapter? You Don’t Even Have to Ask” Author Brooke Allen Posted on SeptemCategories Brandeis, Critical Thinking (Institution), Ethics, Harvard, Learning, Psychology 2 Comments on Photocopy My Book Chapter? You Don’t Even Have to Ask Not Quite Bulletproof (I’ve changed the names of the college, the professor, and the course.) Last month, as college students across the country prepared to head back to campuses, my fax machine coughed out my annual “Request for Permission” from the Copyright Clearance Center, the corporation that is one of the world’s largest brokers of licenses to copy other people’s work.Īs in past years, the center asked me how much I wanted to charge to permit Middle Earth College to include a copy of Chapter 5 of my book, Liking and Loving: An Invitation to Social Psychology, in a course pack for the 18 students enrolled in Professor McClain’s Management 710 this fall. ![]()
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