Beyond Academics asks to hear your thoughts, comments, and opinions on the topics we’ve covered throughout the week. Let’s keep the conversation about Higher Education going.
The FutureX Podcast Premiere
On September 15, we launched our new podcast, The FutureX Podcast. Listen as host Joe Abraham interviews Dr. Rufus Glasper, CEO of The League For Innovation in the Community College. They talk about the culture that fuels innovation and what leaders in Higher Ed should be considering in times of existential change.
As always, sound off in the comments or send us an email. We’d love to hear your thoughts.
Other Posts
“UMass Launches Inter-Campus Course Exchange To Expand Offerings For Students by Leveraging Distance Learning Technology” from University of Massachusetts
The University of Massachusetts is setting a great example for Higher Ed with a brand new course exchange initiative to make all courses available across all UMass campuses.
BA Bold Thoughts:
What does this mean?
- More flexibility for students
- More course seats filled
- More diverse course offerings
What does this really mean?
This opens the door to national, even global, course exchanges creating limitless opportunities for students.
“Are Universities Going the Way of CDs and Cable TV?” by Michael D. Smith for The Atlantic
Just like television, film, and music, higher education will have to adapt and become digital in order to survive. Doing so may even create a boom in education quality and availability.
“But remember, just because new technology changed the way entertainment was delivered doesn’t mean it impeded the industry’s underlying mission.”
BA Bold Thoughts:
- There will always be a need for higher education, especially in a time of economic struggle.
- Traditional learning is a thing of the past, and this false trust in tradition is inhibiting higher education from reaching its full potential.
- Education needs to become more accesible and moving to digital is the way to do that.
“How to Save Higher Education” by Kevin Carey for Washington Monthly
Higher education is failing. It’s failing itself and it’s failing its students. The only way to save it is to completely reimagine and recreate a system that works for everyone, not just the privileged few.
“The need for college won’t go away, however, particularly with widespread unemployment. For-profit colleges backed by private equity will surge into the gap, using aggressive and deceptive marketing tactics to sign up naive students who will pay outsized tuition with no-questions-asked loans from the U.S. Department of Education. Much of that debt will never be repaid, ruining credit, wasting lives, and costing taxpayers billions.”
BA Bold Thoughts:
- Higher education can benefit greatly from a network of schools that work together to make education more accessible and more sustainable for the institutions.
- What Higher Ed needs is a realignment of the incentives that cause many organizations to put profit before students.
- Higher education must become more accessible and affordable in order to remove its burden from an already strained economy.
Tell Us Your Thoughts
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