The second speaker at the conference (#masonfuture) was Jeff Selingo from the Chronicle of Higher Education. His remarks began with a focus on how higher education is deeply skeptical of change and unwilling to hear opposing viewpoints. Then he moved to a discussion of how technology is transforming the relationship between the producer and the…
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The Five Page Paper and the History Degree
Over the past week there has been a lot of hand wringing in American higher education over a recent study by the Pew Research Center, “Is College Worth It?.” The study, conducted with The Chronicle of Higher Education, makes it abundantly clear that a growing majority of American adults no longer believes that higher education…