End the University as We Know It – Op-Ed
End the University as We Know It – Op-Ed : Nytimes Op-ed by Mark Taylor, chairman of the religion department at Columbia. Main idea: GRADUATE education is the Detroit of higher learning. Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for which there is no market (candidates for teaching positions that do not exist) and develop skills for which there is diminishing demand (research in subfields within subfields and publication in journals read by no one other than a few like-m
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