About 18 minutes into the conversation, we get into the topic of innovation in higher education. He thinks we might see a winner-take-all market for professors, and we might see it happen sooner than you think. A podcast version is coming.
Feb 24 2012
I'm sitting in my hotel room in Chiang Mai, Thailand watching The O'Reilly Factor. I might as well have been watching Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! The content was almost indistinguishable. O'Reilly and Dobbs were saying that Obama should be taking more coercive action than he's taking. Against whom? Oil companies....
Feb 24 2012
From Esquire, August 29, 1978: THE DANGEROUS ARROGANCE OF THE NEW ELITE by David Lebedoff -- For the first time, the author contends, there is emerging in America an intelligent elite that genuinely mistrusts the basic tenets of democracy. The group came about when young people of high measured intelligence began to m...
Feb 24 2012
About 18 minutes into the conversation, we get into the topic of innovation in higher education. He thinks we might see a winner-take-all market for professors, and we might see it happen sooner than you think. A podcast version is coming.
READER COMMENTS
David Beckworth
Feb 24 2012 at 2:47pm
Arnold,
So what you are saying is that young professors need to hurry up and get tenure before the winner-take-all market for professors hits higher ed.
Note to self: get tenure!
Nathan Smith
Feb 24 2012 at 2:50pm
Bring it on. It will probably put me out of a job, but it will be good for students. It’s horrible that people have to go tens of thousands of dollars into debt just to get the sheepskin so that employers will look at their resumes. We need a new model, urgently.
Becky Hargrove
Feb 24 2012 at 2:58pm
Really interesting and thought provoking. Who would have thought that higher learning would become like American Idol so soon. But that’s not all bad. When it became impossible for (most) musicians to make a living, did that stop them? Not at all.
Daniel
Feb 24 2012 at 3:29pm
I don’t understand why this is a video chat. Aren’t you both basically in the same town?
Floccina
Feb 25 2012 at 4:03pm
I think that he believes schools are more important and can do more than they really can.
Joe Cushing
Feb 26 2012 at 5:28pm
I have an MS in Finance. I was recently hired for a job that a person with a high school diploma could do–except everybody doing the job also has a degree in finance or accounting. I’ve been in school with the employer for a week and have 2 more weeks of training. None of the training is related to anything I went to school for since high school. The skill requirements for the job are the ability to read, to solve simple problems, to do simple math, and to follow complex rules/processes. The three weeks of training are to teach us the rules and processes. Sure having a degree in finance means I have the qualifying skills but so does being an average to above average high school grad. There is sheepskin effect going on here for sure.
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