Higher Ed Guru: Seven Solutions a "Good Start"
Thomas Lindsay, who was recently selected to head the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Higher Education, is no stranger to controversy. That may be considered an asset in the position, given the foundation’s role in igniting much of the debate that has gripped Texas higher ed this year.
From January 2009 to April 2010, Lindsay served a 15-month stint as president of Chicago’s Shimer College, a tiny private institution that follows a “Great Books” curriculum heavily focused on the works of such seminal figures as Isaac Newton, John Locke and William Shakespeare. Lindsay was criticized for ...
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Dave Mundy via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Which puts them at odds with those who actually RUN higher education
Texas Longhorns
The man is not a higher ed guru. That would make him a walking oxymoron. The man knows a little bit about a little bit. I trust Bill Powers and real experts.
The only thing the 7 higher ed final solutions are good for is a paper shredder. Now that's a good start.
poryorick
<quote>he says the experience taught him a few lessons: higher education institutions are "peerless at institutional self-defense," reform requires the full engagement of all stakeholders, "reform is essential."</quote>
A rejection of certain theories about how best to reform higher education is not the same as institutional self-defense. Institutions of higher ed have been forced by declining funding to constantly institute operational reforms over the last 30-odd years. Just because those best suited to understand the complexities of higher education disagree with any number of solutions provided by partisan political organizations doesn't necessarily indicate a defensive posture.
Let's consider having a reasonable, intelligent discussion, and dispense with the Luntzian framing exercises.
T D
7 Steps to Ruin Higher Education
1. Declare higher education no longer a worthwhile public good.
2. Decrease public funding.
3. Feign horror and outrage as tuition increases.
4. Accept private, non-transparent funding to broadcast said horror and outrage.
5. Declare higher education a public good!
6. Demand "accountability" and transparency.
7. Advance private, on-line companies (see #4) as the solution to the problem you've created.
WUSRPH
What do you want to be that right now a bunch of folks over at UT are going thru this guy's published works just like they did his predecessors...I hope he comes out with a better grade than the other guy did...Still it is nice that the GOPers might finally have a guy pushing their propaganda who actually understands the purpose of an education as something other than producing good little pegs to fill jobs in the corporate world...I mean this guy has even read some philosophy and maybe even some history...What a change!!
hans5162@ix.netcom.com hans
He failed at his last job. Sounds like a perfect candidate for the TPPF. They ought to be looking at the scandal in the for profit schools if they're concerned about student debt. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/14/goldman-sachs-for-profit-college_n_997409.html
effen wright
That's what this is - GOP propaganda. Gotta be since the public education system is working so well that any mention of changes automatically qualifies as, gasp, propaganda.
Texas Longhorns
A fired college president running the TPPF. Sounds about right.