Posts Tagged ‘Metropolitan College and Extended Education’
From Fortress to Vista on the World
by Jay A. Halfond
May 2, 2011
When it comes to creating an international campus, America’s universities are far better at welcoming faculty and students from abroad—and sending students to study abroad—than in truly elevating global consciousness. Simply having foreign individuals on campus doesn’t make global citizens of the rest of us. Exposure is hardly sufficient. Like wallflowers at a dance, there ...
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Buying Access to Ivy—A Way to Revive Harvard
by Jay A. Halfond
June 4, 2010
Of the many, many articles written on Harvard University’s endowment woes, I have yet to read one actually sympathetic with Harvard. Perhaps this reflects our gleeful voyeurism when the high-and-mighty fall, or sense of justice that the reckless should pay for their recklessness, or belief that no university truly needs or deserves such a large ...
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