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Which Path Forward?

Inside Higher Ed

What we need, I think, is what Feldstein calls a “radically conservative” vision that conserves “the best parts of an American-style liberal arts education by re-imagining it but not rejecting it.” This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberal arts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar.

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If You Were Designing Cal State Today: A Proposal Out of MIT

eLiterate

This was back in the 1990s, so it was early for a professor outside of an education or computer science department to be thinking about such things. At the same time, it’s worth acknowledging that the document contains some tensions and elisions that are typical of such endeavors. What a Neo-Cal State would be like.

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What Today’s College Students Need

Inside Higher Ed

Well-paying jobs increasingly require applicants to document skills and experience that many haven’t acquired. Campus pre-professional centers in such areas as the arts, business, computer science, health care, information technology, public policy, and science should make a point of helping students form a professional identity.