Archive for April, 2009

Columbia Professor Mark Taylor’s Revolutionary Solutions For Higher Education

In his New York Times article entitled "End the University as We Know It", Mark Taylor says that If American colleges and universities are to thrive in the 21st century, they must be rigorously regulated and completely restructured.
Taylor says;
"Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for which there is no market (candidates for [...]

April 27, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Senior Editor at Harvard Business Review Questions the College System

"Folks, there's a big elephant in the classroom. The fact is, the old-fashioned model of post-secondary education in the U.S. is pretty much broken."

Just when I was starting to think I was a lonely, tiny voice who bothered at all to question the sacred institution we call college -I find a Harvard faculty member who [...]

April 22, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Stanley Tate says; “Don’t Raise Tuition. Raise Hell!”

Colleges, both private and public, have long been cashing in on the higher education racket by raising tuition costs to stay competitive and profitable. Because most people assume that the high cost of college is necessary for a quality education, few have bothered questioning it -until now.
Lawmakers in the state of Florida are [...]

April 1, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Academic poverty, College Tuition, Dissatisfied College Consumers, Outrageous College Tuition  No Comments