The New York Times’s David Brooks has a column out arguing the importance of humanities majors in a down economy [see: "History for Dollars"]. Brooks argues that traditional humanities majors, English, history, art, etc. will get the short end of the stick in both. I’d show it to my students if I’d thought they’d appreciate [...]
I taught at three schools in my life. Can you tell the SES of my students by their answers to the question of “Where are you going to college?” University of Tennnessee, Pellissippi State Community College, Tennessee Tech University, East Tennnessee State University [first school] Tennessee State, Volunteer State Community College, Nashville Auto Diesel College, [...]
Jay Mathews is taking on merit scholarships over at WaPo in his online column. I usually like Jay but he openly questions the recent increase in merit scholarships in his latest piece: Merit aid seems to be motivated, at least in part, by a lust for higher ratings in U.S. News and World Report. Is [...]
