In yesterday’s post I wrote about how the “race to the bottom” in the free economy of the Internet was changing the way that American (and global) companies do business in many sectors. Today I want to speculate on what that will mean for American higher education–an industry that ignores market forces at its peril….
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The End of Western Civilization as We Know It
Over the past couple of years I’ve written a number of posts in which I wrestle with what technological change means for the future of higher education, general education, and history education specifically. Much of my speculating and ranting in these posts has centered on what seems to me to be a clash between the…
Milo Minderbinder University?
Do you remember First Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder? He’s the guy in Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 who bought eggs in Malta for 84 cents a dozen and sold them back to the Maltese for 51 cents a dozen. The important thing was that the syndicate made a profit, so everyone who owned a share made out in the…
Productivity in Higher Education (2)
In the Summer 2008 issue of Innovations, Henry Kelly, President of the Federation of American Scientists published an article titled “Continuous Improvement in Undergraduate Education: A Possible Dream” in which he argued that a variety of factors, among them growing global demand for higher education and the availability of new technologies for the delivery of…