Higher Education Observer

This is a fabulous essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education (need to subscribe). As he says, the "undead texts" will be the ones remembered longest, even when in graduate school the professors try to destroy and deconstruct them. https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Books-That-Wouldn-t-Die-/245879?key=yc0panBLrqCSy_jQRBofjCgEAHJ5yaQsqWLc_SlQbBRY3HYRT5ZklZvC2-IGcR6WYk5GT0VWR3djVk0tRmluUlA3VVBVajV0U2N2ejJOdmpIcnUwb2JlWmgwaw

There is so much to say about this I don't know where to start. My only regret here is that I don't have at hand the real statistics of access institutions in higher ed, but those are easily available from the National Center on Education Statistics if one wants them. The worst part for me personally is that what my colleagues and I do will be conflated with this crime. I work in an access college. We have no prestige like a Yale or Stanford or UCLA, despite doing great work. We take everybody and put them through the boot camp of higher education. A lot don't make it; access institutions have lower graduation rates. We cost less--less than 20% of these prestige places.  We don't have luxurious dorms. We don't have professors who appear on cable news shows and Good Morning America . We don't have Division I athletics teams and we don't have lazy rivers for students to float down when they should be studying.  We work hard. We actually teach.

Fascinating article: I don't agree with all of it, but it gives some food for thought and discussion. https://aeon.co/essays/schools-love-the-idea-of-a-growth-mindset-but-does-it-work