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Is Higher Education Losing its Soul?


Is Higher Education Losing its Soul? - Yeshiva University

President -- at Yeshiva University, we take a slightly different view. We believe the purpose of education is to ennoble and enable our students ...

Americans Are Losing Faith in the Value of College. Whose Fault Is ...

As a result at many colleges and in many degree programs, the value proposition no longer exists. Parents and students no longer see the point ...

How higher education lost its shine - The Hechinger Report

These include widespread and fast-growing skepticism about the value of a degree, impatience with the time it takes to get one and costs that ...

Colleges Are Dying, Long Live Higher Education - ZINE | Matt Klein

But even as we climbed out of the recession, the birth rate kept dropping, and we are now starting to see the consequences on campuses ...

'The Lost Soul of Higher Education'

With over 70 percent of the instruction in the nation's institutions of higher learning in the hands of people with part-time and temporary ...

Why is higher education and college no longer important? - Quora

However, having said that - college education does not give you all the skills you need to survive in the real world. Skills like Leadership, ...

The Lost Soul of Higher Education | The New Press

The American university is under attack from two directions, argues Ellen Schrecker in this major new foray into the public debates over our troubled system ...

We can't ignore a crisis of confidence in American higher education

It's a vicious cycle: as expenses rise and the value of holding a bachelor's degree becomes less certain, fewer people enroll or stay enrolled, ...

Why Traditional College Degrees Are Failing in the Modern Economy

Some said that the curriculums are outdated. While the world has seen massive technological advancements, the education system has largely ...

The University Has Lost its Way - The American Mind

Higher education used to develop the whole person, mind and soul alike. That was back when elite colleges like Harvard espoused principles like ...

Has Education Lost Its Soul? - Forbes

His school is a Catholic one, teaching boys and girls of the high school grades 9-12. But although students at Montfort attend masses and ...

Deep Reading Will Save Your Soul - by William Deresiewicz

Higher ed is at an impasse. So much about it sucks, and nothing about it is likely to change. Colleges and universities do not seem inclined to ...

Has Higher Education Lost its Soul? - SpringerLink

In 2003, in order to enhance the level of national competitiveness in higher education, the Ministry of Education (MOE) in Taiwan adopted the SSCI, SCI, ...

Americans Have Not Actually Turned Against Higher Education Like ...

Americans are losing faith in the value of college. Or so we are told. As many colleges grapple with declining enrollment and intense ...

The Return of College as a Common Good

Americans increasingly see the public value of higher education. Can colleges seize the moment?

How to Really Fix Higher Ed - The Atlantic

Most young Americans never earn a college degree, and far too many of those who do are poorly served by sclerotic institutions that offer ...

What Is the Future of College — and Does It Have Room for Men ...

Simple, right? Then colleges came and then universities came, and it became a bigger mess. The part that was missing was the relationship ...

Does the growth in higher education mean a decline in the quality of ...

Thirdly, students have the incentive to acquire a college degree due to employers'preferences for higher ed- ucational attainment, the university application ...

Shrinkage in American Thinking about Higher Education

I'll be talking a good deal about “higher education” and “the university,” but my real focus is the concept of liberal education, which is exemplified in this.

How College Sold Its Soul And Surrendered To The Market, By...

According to Deresiewicz “Elite American universities no longer provide their students with a real education, as one that addresses them as complete human ...