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Landscapes of learning for unknown futures: presenter responses to audience questions

SRHE

Hasn’t this whole conversation exploded, or at the very least fundamentally challenged, the conventional idea of a university campus? The idea of a ‘university campus’ may also be different, depending on what your own university context is. Julianne : It has!

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The Impact of Crushing Student Debt on American Society: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions: Changing Higher Education Podcast 164 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest David Linton

The Change Leader, Inc.

Drumm McNaughton speaks with economist and investment manager David Linton about his findings from his upcoming book, Crushed: How Student Debt Has Impaired a Generation and What to Do About It. Podcast Highlights The cost of higher ed in terms of percentage of household income has risen dramatically in the past 50 years.

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The Return of Bad Arguments for the Humanities

HESA

I see we’re back into tiresome public debates about the value of “Liberal Arts” and the “Humanities” (not synonyms, even though most people use the terms interchangeably). HOLY SWEET CRAP that casual equation of “fewer liberal arts students” = universities becoming vocational schools.