DFW HOYA
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Post by DFW HOYA on Jun 12, 2009 7:25:21 GMT -5
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theexorcist
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Post by theexorcist on Jun 12, 2009 7:28:34 GMT -5
I found this part the most interesting:
"Perhaps it would be a good thing, he said, if the recession could refocus college administrators on the quality of higher education, rather than on investments in climbing walls (Reed does not have one) and other “country club” aspects of college life that have fueled an academic arms race reliant on tuition increases and fund-raising.
“The catering to consumer tastes — I keep trying to say, we are in the education business,” Mr. Diver said, describing the pressure to keep up with wealthier colleges and expressing a frustration rarely voiced publicly by college presidents. “The whole principle behind higher education is, we know something that you don’t. Therefore, we shouldn’t cater to them.”
But no college president wants to be first to make major changes in the college experience; Reed, for example, is not abandoning plans for a new performing arts center. “If we’re going to change our ways, we’re really going to need to be pushed,” Mr. Diver said, referring to colleges generally. “It’s not going to well up from within.”"
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mchoya
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Post by mchoya on Jun 17, 2009 19:10:55 GMT -5
I always thought college admissions for American students were need blind. I now assume that this belief is untrue.
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