Black, White, and Gray: The Shifting Educational Terrain George Yancey
We get comfortable with the way things have been. Change does not come easy for most of us. But to expect things to stay the way they have been sets us up for nasty surprises. Those of us in academia would do well to remember this. Over the past couple of weeks I have been considering some of the changes occurring to the institutions of higher education. I do not have solutions to these potential changes but those of us who draw our paychecks from academia need to think about what these changes may mean. In no particular order here is what I see as potential changes that we should consider.
1. The Coming Financial Crisis – Austerity is not merely coming to Greece. It is coming to academia. ...
2. Being Online – ...
3. Political Trouble – In my last blog I made the argument that we have allowed our politics to distort our science. I have no need to revisit that argument but we have to think about the implications of academic political activism. ...
4. Job Training – The emphasis in academia from liberal arts to occupational training likely comes in cycles. ...
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