Over the weekend, I received my copy of The Austin Business Journal wrapped in a plastic sleeve with a 144-page magazine titled High Point University – The Premier Life Skills University 2023. If “A picture’s worth a thousand words”, the 14 pictures on the cover page depicting the 14 celebrities/executives who have served as High […]
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Inside Higher Ed reporter Susan D’Agostino’s recent article about the surge in online classes at Virginia Tech intrigued me for a number of reasons. Ms. D’Agostino leads off her article with a story about a course, Concussion Perspectives, offered by Stefan Duma, a professor of engineering and director of the Institute for Critical Technology and […]
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I recently read Jason Gonzales’ article in WorkShift about Colorado’s new strategic plan for higher education. I was so intrigued by his sentence “The plan prods Colorado to focus on the value higher education can bring to individuals and the state – rather than only on whether Coloradans are earning a degree” that I opted […]
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Shortly after I published my article about Iowa’s legislature and governor approving a bill that will fund Education Savings Accounts (ESA’s) for students, the Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece about school choice written by former Florida governor Jeb Bush. Governor Bush’s article touts the progress of states toward allowing school choice for K-12 […]
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I read about Iowa’s new private school law in a recently published article in the Des Moines Register. When the bill is fully phased in, it will allow any Iowa family to apply for a state-funded education account to pay for private K-12 schools. The new law provides $7,598 each year to students to be […]
I continue to read articles and hear statements from enthusiastic college presidents and provosts who believe that their traditional student enrollment declines can be offset by enrolling working adult students in online courses and programs that were developed during Covid. Frequently, the 39 million Americans with no degree who have completed some college courses are […]
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Last week’s announcements about the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence offered online through edX at $10,000 read like this was a first of its kind degree that would train thousands of people at an affordable price. Given my interest in the field, I thought I would dig down […]
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A few months ago, I published a blog article about the Crisis in American Higher Education: Evolution and Continuing Disruptions. The article was a summary of a five-part series that outlined a speech I gave for a group of business executives. Dr. Bjorn Mercer, Department Chair, Communication and World Languages, School of Arts and Humanities […]
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Whenever I read another article about community college students losing credits and hope in their quest for a four-year bachelor’s degree, I cringe. A recent Washington Post article by Jon Marcus titled Bachelor’s degree dreams get farther out of reach for one group of students provides a few good examples of some of the experiences […]
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In a January 10, 2023 opinion piece in Inside Higher Ed, University of Texas professor Steven Mintz calls for those who care about American higher education to acknowledge a series of hard and unpleasant truths: Postsecondary education in the U.S. relegates the students with the greatest needs to the most under-resourced institutions. High performing Black […]
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