Wally Boston

Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

March 22, 2021 Wally Boston 0

For years, my typical method for finding a book to read has been to read a review or see it listed as a source in a paper or other publication. While that’s my typical method, it’s not my favorite. My favorite is to wander through a bookstore, peruse the latest releases shelf and one or two specialized areas, and find a book that looks interesting enough to purchase. The recent pandemic minimized my frequency of finding books through perusal. With an hour to kill on Saturday before meeting one of my daughters for lunch, I opted for a short visit to a college town bookstore. In the new releases section, I stumbled across the book Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World by Cade Metz.

Current Events

Building Back American Job Training in the Post-COVID Era

March 18, 2021 Wally Boston 0

In a well-written article published by the Fordham Institute, the National Center on Education and the Economy’s President Emeritus Marc Tucker writes about the dual workforce emerging in America after the pandemic.

Business of Education

The Merits of Private Schools and Fixing Our Public Schools

March 16, 2021 Wally Boston 0

In the April 2021 online issue of The Atlantic, Caitlin Flanagan’s article “Private Schools Have Become Truly Obscene” has elicited some competing responses. If the title alone was not jarring, the subtitle, “Elite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality – and then pretend to be engines of social change,” clearly indicates the points to be made by the writer.

Current Events

Coronavirus: Lessons That We’ve Learned, One Year Later

March 15, 2021 Wally Boston 0

The first coronavirus article on my blog was published on March 5, 2020. I asked our program director for Public Health, Dr. Samer Koutoubi, M.D., Ph.D., to write a guest post about the effect of the pandemic on our schools.

Online Education

Missouri Online – Is It an Entrepreneur or a Cannibal?

March 11, 2021 Wally Boston 0

Lindsay McKenzie’s article in Tuesday’s Inside Higher Ed provided me with the news that the University of Missouri System had launched a new online arm called Missouri Online.

Accountability

Is a Better Definition of Outcomes Needed at Community Colleges?

March 9, 2021 Wally Boston 0

For the better part of the last decade, there have been proposals for free education at community colleges. As recently as December 23, President Biden pledged to provide tuition-free community college for all.

Current Events

The Future of Work after COVID-19: What Will Happen Next?

March 8, 2021 Wally Boston 0

It’s been a year since most U.S. colleges and businesses shifted to an online, study from home or work from home mode in order to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Our work and home lives were disrupted, and it’s safe to say that until the country reaches the herd immunity level, our disrupted state will continue.

Access and Affordability

Higher Ed: A Day of Reckoning or Is It Business as Usual?

March 4, 2021 Wally Boston 0

Perhaps it was Rebecca Natow’s article in The Chronicle of Higher Education Review titled “Why Haven’t More Colleges Closed?”. Maybe it was Allison Salisbury’s article in Forbes titled “Building Equitable Upskilling Programs: It’s Not Degree Vs. Short Credentials – It’s Both.” Also, it could be the hundreds — if not thousands — of articles and books about the pending changes in higher ed that have been written and published over the past two decades. Clearly, the most recent two articles cited triggered my motivation to pen this article.

Business of Education

Should State Funding of College Scholarships Be Tied to Post-Grad Employment?

March 3, 2021 Wally Boston 0

Longtime Palm Beach Post columnist Frank Cerabino wrote an article last week discussing a proposal in Florida’s legislature to cut public scholarship funding to college students majoring in areas of study that do not have an immediate path to employment after graduation.