Even as budget deficits have mounted at both the federal and state levels, and governments have cut back to varying degrees on their spending on higher education, many college officials have held out hope that when the economy stabilizes, and eventually recovers, so too will the investment in colleges, allowing the institutions to go back to business as usual…George Leef on our Accreditation Study
the business model for many higher education institutions is unsustainable, and that fundamental changes in how most colleges operate will be necessary…
Andrea Fuller
30 private college leaders who received more than $1-million in total compensation. In the previous year's report, 23 chief executives earned over $1-million…Brad DeLong
As in years past, the top earners included presidents who received large payouts when they stepped down…
what we are living through is not the first but rather the fourth online-learning revolution…
the first online-learning revolution, the first adaptation of technology to higher education, came in 390 BC when to cut the costs of education and allow for more students Plato invented the philosophy book and substituted it for the in-person teacher, thus leveraging the words and thoughts of Socrates (or at least of Plato’s version of Socrates) over many more people and many more millennia than Socrates could himself teach in person…
Providing each would-be theologian and judge and canon lawyer and administrator with the books they needed to study was prohibitively expensive. They needed an alternative...
The solution that mid-medieval Europe hit upon was the system of the western university… Assemble all those who wished to learn a book in one place. Have somebody…read the book aloud to them as they sat before him in a group and took their notes… This was the second online-learning revolution.
Then came the third online-learning revolution: the printing press of Johann Gutenberg…
Today we are in the middle of a fourth online-learning revolution…
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