Hi David...really appreciate this perspective and suggestion. The point is a good one: when everything is 'college', what is 'college'? At the same time, higher ed gets painted with an 'Ivy brush' far too much of the time - when so much of higher education looks nothing like the Ivies. Thanks again for the suggestion and for reading.
I’m a new reader of Substack, but after searching for and reading many substacks in the areas I am interested, I continue to be amazed at the thoughtfulness and intelligence of this substack. I really hope you keep going after Spring Break!
I think it was Dick Cavett , but I might be wrong, who said ‘exclusive’ is the ugliest word in the English language. This statement has its place in the discussion of higher education, but that’s not my point.
My derivative of this is that I think one could argue that the word ‘college’ itself is the most ‘abused’ word in the English language. Its meaning is impossibly subjective now—beauty school, adventure education, costume technology, automotive repair as well as nuclear engineering, philosophy and theology. I put in ‘beauty’ in the federal IPEDS search engine online and got back a list of 443 colleges with the word ‘beauty’ in their name.
I’m not sure if this might ever be part of your discussion, but the debasing of the term ‘college’ is something that seems close to the ‘value’ and ‘skills gap’ and of course student debt you talk about. Thanks for great content.
Hi David...really appreciate this perspective and suggestion. The point is a good one: when everything is 'college', what is 'college'? At the same time, higher ed gets painted with an 'Ivy brush' far too much of the time - when so much of higher education looks nothing like the Ivies. Thanks again for the suggestion and for reading.
I’m a new reader of Substack, but after searching for and reading many substacks in the areas I am interested, I continue to be amazed at the thoughtfulness and intelligence of this substack. I really hope you keep going after Spring Break!
I think it was Dick Cavett , but I might be wrong, who said ‘exclusive’ is the ugliest word in the English language. This statement has its place in the discussion of higher education, but that’s not my point.
My derivative of this is that I think one could argue that the word ‘college’ itself is the most ‘abused’ word in the English language. Its meaning is impossibly subjective now—beauty school, adventure education, costume technology, automotive repair as well as nuclear engineering, philosophy and theology. I put in ‘beauty’ in the federal IPEDS search engine online and got back a list of 443 colleges with the word ‘beauty’ in their name.
I’m not sure if this might ever be part of your discussion, but the debasing of the term ‘college’ is something that seems close to the ‘value’ and ‘skills gap’ and of course student debt you talk about. Thanks for great content.