08.Jun.2010 Commodification
Students as commodities: “affinity agreements” pay schools to steer students to credit cards.
31.Jan.2010 Stating the Obvious
Michael Bérubé reviews The Marketplace of Ideas by Louis Menand.
11.Jan.2010 Bait and Switch
Governor Schwarzenegger has introduced a constitutional amendment capping the percentage of the budget that can be spent on prisons at 5% and mandating 10% for higher education. Currently, the state spends 45% more on prisons than it does on colleges and universities.
02.Jan.2010 What’s Your Take on Cassavetes?
Kate Zernike of the New York Times describes efforts to make college pay off with a good job. Administrators talk about not wanting to turn student into widget-makers, then go on to describe how they’ve gutted Classical education in favor of trendy subjects and fields (anything with “bio” in the title, one person says. I [...]