Another last July 2012 story from NYTimes saved as pdf here.
Just in the spirit of today’s posts on how fast things are, and have been, and will be, changing…the “higher ed crisis” as our tag has it.
And my description from that post:
This is happening so fast it’s fairly hard to keep all the programs straight…And at the bottom level of it all is the question of Cost/Benefit.
Cost to the Universities to provide, costs to the student to access, benefit to the universities bottom line and stated goals, benefit to the student’s educational achievement and empowerment in the job market.
Biggest core question: When is a certificate “as good as” a degree?
Universities are trying to have it both ways, by competing for market share by offering their “coursewares” online for low cost or free, while at the same time retaining the “premium level” degree track that still costs beaucoup bucks, but gets you that “value packed” credential of BS, MA, PHD…
Until the day comes along that it’s not the “value packed” credential that counts to employers, but the actual capability of any particular potential employee… And how far off can that be?