Tag: education

  • Goodbye Georgia Perimeter College and Hello Georgia State University

    Last week, the Board of Regents approved the merger of Georgia Perimeter College and Georgia State University.  The consolidation of the two schools will result in the new GSU having over 50,000 students–making it the largest university in the state.  A lot of details about the merger are unknown including how exactly it will take…

  • Science and the Humanities Have More in Common Than We Think

    Krista Tippett recently interviewed Brian Greene for her program On Being.  Greene is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and has written lots of provocative stuff about our universe.  I’ve heard him interviewed before, but this conversation was particularly interesting because, at one point, they discuss the troubling disconnect between science and…

  • Student Loan Crisis

    This is a good article outlining the student loan crisis in higher education.  I think we will soon see this market bust.  We need to reevaluate our views of college (what it is, who should go, what it should cost), and we need to find a different funding model for higher education. The article, “Student…

  • Explosion In Free Online Classes May Change Course Of Higher Education : All Tech Considered : NPR

    Explosion In Free Online Classes May Change Course Of Higher Education : All Tech Considered : NPR. I’m interested to see what this means for higher education and the possibilities of “global” education through the internet.