Tag: Humanities

Powerful Forces Are Fracking Our Attention. We Can Fight Back.

The lament is as old as education itself: The students aren’t paying attention. But today, the problem of flighty or fragmented attention has reached truly catastrophic proportions. High school and college teachers overwhelmingly report that students’ capacity for sustained, or deep attention has sharply decreased, significantly impeding the forms of study — reading, looking at […]

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Stop Corporatizing My Students

Last year, the University of North Carolina Greensboro contracted with rpk Group, the consulting firm that has worked on West Virginia University’s restructuring, to devise an academic program review in the face of declining enrollment and changes in state funding. Their website asserts that “innovation disconnected from the business model is not sustainable.” Reducing education […]

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The Value of a Liberal Arts Degree: What’s the Return on Investment?

The state auditor of Mississippi recently released an eight-page report suggesting that the state should invest more in college degree programs that could “improve the value they provide to both taxpayers and graduates.” That means state appropriations should focus more on engineering and business programs, said Shad White, the auditor, and less on liberal arts […]

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