Higher Education and the Perfect Data Storm
May 09, 2012 by David Clemens |
To understand what's really going on at our colleges and universities, we need to look beyond data, writes David Clemens.
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The Vocabulary of Virtue
Feb 21, 2012 by David Clemens |
You can’t end racism by practicing racism, even when you pretend it is virtuous.
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California Dreamin’
Feb 14, 2012 by David Clemens |
David Clemens laments the latest announcement from California's commnuity college system.
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Colleges’ Lost Love of Film
Sep 26, 2011 by David Clemens |
Colleges and universities shortchange students by "academicizing" film rather than appreciating the way it illuminates our humanness.
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Disrupting the Textbook Machine
Sep 02, 2011 by David Clemens |
The higher education bubble was inflated by various pumps and gases: expensive but useless degrees, an ideological straitjacket, grade inflation, administrative bloat, and proliferating programs, centers, and offices of enigmatic,… Continue Reading | 10 Comments >
Higher Ed, or Building Clockwork Oranges?
Jul 08, 2011 by David Clemens |
For Father’s Day, my daughter Kate sent me a t-shirt featuring David Pelham’s dust jacket of Anthony Burgess’s novel A Clockwork Orange (Penguin, 1962). Director Stanley Kubrick turned Burgess’s… Continue Reading | 3 Comments >
The Real Purpose of Education
Jul 06, 2011 by David Clemens |
Good teaching should result “in a lighting of those lamps in the mind and in the heart that shall eventually show the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”
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The Dangerous Mr. Khan
Jun 07, 2011 by David Clemens |
Khan Academy's video lectures may work for teaching math and science, but history gets short-changed in favor of quick information transfer and a too-zoomed-out big picture view.
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YouTube U
May 12, 2011 by David Clemens |
At a recent Liberty Fund Socratic Seminar on “Education and Liberty in the Digital Age,” the conferees considered whether the Internet cum computer constitute “disruptive technology” that will… Continue Reading | 12 Comments >
Betrayed by Higher Ed…Again
Apr 08, 2011 by David Clemens |
My post “Betrayed by Higher Ed” has occasioned so many comments and emails that I want to offer a group response.
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Is the Internet a Mad, Hallucinating Deity?
Mar 28, 2011 by David Clemens |
In “The Library of Babel,” Jorge Luis Borges imagines a gargantuan Library in which are shelved books that together exhaust all possible combinations of letters. Obviously, “[f]or every rational line or… Continue Reading | Leave a Comment >
Betrayed by Higher Ed
Mar 23, 2011 by David Clemens |
My former student Joshua, now ambivalently quartered at UC Santa Cruz (home of the fightin’ Banana Slugs and currently under Federal investigation for systemic anti-Semitism), has an article in Literary Matters… Continue Reading | 20 Comments >
Going to College Makes People More Likely to “Hide” Than to “Do”
Feb 22, 2011 by David Clemens |
In The Weekly Standard, Joseph Epstein makes a nice distinction between those who see man’s essential self as defined by what he hides and those who see man’s essential self as defined by what he does. "More people… Continue Reading | 1 Comment >
The Principles of Scientific Education Management
Feb 14, 2011 by David Clemens |
The ed-blogosphere overflows with predictions of a “higher education bubble,” but I find no mention of one thing that epitomizes the whole sorry mess: the Ed.D. For many Ph.Ds, the Ed.D. represents the ticket… Continue Reading | 12 Comments >
Theophobia
Jan 27, 2011 by David Clemens |
This morning I heard from a necessarily anonymous colleague who teaches at a necessarily anonymous college. Her Dean had refused to sign off on a grant application because the granting foundation makes some “religious… Continue Reading | Leave a Comment >
