Student Tuition now supports Higher Education more than State Governments

From the Washington Post: It used to be that attending a public university all but guaranteed graduating with little to no debt. State governments funneled enough money into higher education that families could send their kids to a local school without worrying about taking out a second mortgage or private loans to pay their way. Not so anymore. …

IS AN MFA THE NEW MBA?

Reposted from Fast Company COMPANIES ALL ACROSS AMERICA ARE STARTING TO SEE A CRITICAL TALENT GAP AS OLDER EMPLOYEES RETIRE. ARTS STUDENTS MAY NOT HAVE ALL THE TRADITIONAL SKILLS, BUT THEY HAVE THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE: CREATIVITY. BY STEVEN TEPPER An estimated 10,000 Baby Boomers will turn 65 every day for at least the next …

Folklorist William Ferris on the importance of the Humanities

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV5tWTH7oXk&feature=youtu.be UNC Professor and Folklorist William Ferris on the value of a humanities education

MOOCs may not be so disruptive after all

Reblogged from The Chronicle of Higher Education. by Steve Kolowich In California, the MOOC revolution came to a halt unceremoniously. Sen. Darrell Steinberg, the leader of the State Senate, quietly decided to put his online-education bill on the back burner last month. The bill,introduced with fanfare in March, originally aimed to push public universities to award …

The Value of Humor in Grad School

Now that the fall semester is approaching, I like to repost helpful articles for readers returning to academe.   This is reposted from InsiderHigherEd and written by Emiily VanBuren. When you first start graduate school, it seems like everyone has a piece of helpful advice to impart: Don't procrastinate. Take your vitamins. Make an appointment with the …

After the M.A.–great advice on “now what?”

This article form the Chronicle of Higher Education asks graduate students to consider their options after the M.A. beyond the Ph.D. : If you are pursuing a research master's degree (or thinking about it), you need a career plan that goes beyond applying to a Ph.D. program. Graduate study is very different from undergraduate work, …

Nate Silver Crunches the Humanities

By Mark Bauerlein for the Chronicle of Higher EducationIn the debates over the humanities that have unfolded at TheChronicle and elsewhere, the statistician Nate Silver has emerged an authority on the numerical facts. Late last month, Silver wrote a post on his FiveThirtyEight blog at The New York Times titled “As More Attend College, Majors Become More Career-Focused.” He cited figures from the Digest of Education Statisticsdemonstrating that …

Think like an Administrator–just for a minute

How many times have you heard a faculty colleague comment that becoming an administrator is moving to the "dark side"?  It's true, faculty and administrators often think differently, but why is that?  And what are the priorities one has to make as an administrator?  The article excerpted from Inside Higher Ed points the key differences. …

MOOCs: Can they produce quality education?

The Particle Accelerator of Learning by Peter Stokes Reblogged from Inside Higher Ed. “The fruit ripens slowly,” the Guru Nisargadatta Maharaj once observed, “but it drops suddenly.” In a similar fashion, MOOCs (or massive open online courses) seem to have arrived almost out of nowhere, in quick succession – first Udacity in February of last …

A Critique of the Digital Humanities Movement

This essay starts with the title "Stop Calling it Digital Humanities," a response to the fact that Liberal Arts colleges feel left out of the conversation (and have much to add).  I see his point, but I don't agree.  Sure, other Liberal Arts disciplines can engage in important digital projects, but what makes these projects …