I don't know if my attitudes have an objective basis, or if I am just envious of folks whose degrees are from Ivy League schools. My father had only a sixth grade education and my mother eighth grade, and Dad never earned over two dollars an hour, so an expensive University was out of the question. So I went to Kansas State University in the 1970s and early 1980s and got what I thought was an adequate education (BS in Biology and MS in Computer Science) spread out over nearly ten years. In-state tuition, no doubt subsidized by the State of Kansas, was between $500 and $1000 per semester. Working as a software engineer, my salary was always somewhere in the mid range, and I didn't mind. I think my career was more rewarding to me than if I had incurred huge debts at a more top-tier University in order to get higher paying jobs. I guess my point is that higher education could be a whole lot more affordable without throwing out the face-to-face model entirely.
On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 10:08 AM Prof David West <profw...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > Scott Galloway (professor at Stern School of business and supposed > authority) on universities post COVID. > > Fifty percent of the investment in prestige university education is for > 'certification' — degree that signals your lifetime earnings. The Harvard > brand is strong enough that students will accept an inferior educational > experience. The fifty biggest university brands, Harvard, Stanford, etc, > will partner with tech giants like Apple or Facebook to create a hybrid > university, most others will hollow out and die like the large department > store chains. Dorm life and in-person experience will be reserved for > children of the 1%. > > Pretty bleak and a commentary on previous FRIAM conversations about > education and elite universities. > > davew > > -- --- .-. . .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... -..-. .- .-. . -..-. - .... . -..-. . > ... ... . -. - .. .- .-.. -..-. .-- --- .-. -.- . .-. ... > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC> > http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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