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Posted January 11, 2013, By Scott Herring: I keep running into the belief, held by a number of prominent bloggers, that online education is poised to replace the traditional university. They arrive at this view by following a logical equation: higher education is so expensive that it has drifted over the line into usury or simple theft. Because the virtual university will be so much cheaper, capitalism will elevate it and destroy its ivy-and-mortarboard rival. Not everyone accepts this proposition.
Minding the Campus has recently run a number of skeptical essays, about the internet itself, the effectiveness of online instruction, and the Massive Open Online Course. At Phi Beta Cons, Jason Fertig pulls together a wide range of views.
Like them, I am going to have to rain on the parade, in this case all of it.
Posted April 27, 2015, by Mary Grabar. News from the Alexander Hamilton Institute, as spring makes its way slowly up North. . .
A record-breaking 140 students, scholars, board members, and community members attended the opening night banquet and keynote address of the Alexander Hamilton Institute’s Eighth Annual Carl B. Menges Colloquium, held at Turning Stone Resort, in Verona, New York, April 16 to 18. Michael Munger, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program at Duke University delivered the keynote address: “The Entrepreneurial Virtues.” On April 17 and 18, fifteen panelists from areas as diverse as history, law, finance, economics, and philanthropy discussed in six sessions “Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and the Rule of Law: How to Return America to Prosperity.” Sessions included “Property Rights, Uncertainty, and Freedom,” “Taxation and Entitlements,” and “Rule of Law and Regulation.” AHI President Richard Erlanger, an entrepreneur himself, opened the colloquium by speaking to the urgency of the topic given the alarming decline in overall entrepreneurial activity in the United States over the last several years.
The Examined Life IS Worth Living, guest post by Jack Kerwick, Ph.D., posted December 9, 2016:
Not all news coming from academia these days is necessarily bad news. In my own little corner of this world, some of it is actually quite good, and it’s all that much sweeter when it is considered within the larger context of contemporary events.
At a time when universities and colleges around the country are creating “safe spaces,” hosting “cry ins” and “walk outs,” and distributing coloring books and the like for students and faculty who have been traumatized by the election of Donald J. Trump to the presidency; when institutions of higher learning have betrayed their traditional mission by substituting training in political ideology for education of the heads and hearts of their pupils—I’m happy to report that the members of the community of my little college in Southern New Jersey are busy attending to the sorts of matters for the sake of which the liberal arts had historically been prized.
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