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Broad and Deep Knowledge Revisited By Dean Cathy Sandeen
Cathy Sandeen
Ph.D, MBA
Dean of UCLA Extension
My last post focused on the importance of developing broad knowledge and capabilities (Four-Year Career).
In my further reading I have come across a number of ideas that reinforce this point.
Industrial Darwinism or “survival of the fittest industry”
The notion of “Industrial Darwinism” reflected in this chart. Employment areas that are growing are likely to require higher-level thinking. (A perfect example: according to this analysis, “Think Tanks” are a small, but growing employment sector. Imagine that.)
Source: imgur.com
Job Paradox
Then, there’s the… Continue reading
Coaching College Freshmen So They Don’t Drop Out
by Alison Damast
The odds were stacked against Selene Mendez when she enrolled at California State University’s Monterey Bay campus in 2010. She’d moved to the U.S. from Mexico when she was 7 and her father was a migrant farmworker. Her high school guidance counselor seemed to think she’d follow in the footsteps of her older sister and brother, who had dropped out of college in their freshman years. “She told me I wasn’t college material,” Mendez says. “It got me angry.”
Determined to prove the counselor wrong, Mendez participated in a program that helps freshmen stay focused on their… Continue reading
The Need for Focus on Adult Student Success
Alan Tripp
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
InsideTrack
Our notion of the “traditional college student” needs to change. By the end of this decade, 46 percent or nearly half of all students in higher education will be over the age of 25. According to government statistics, more than 4.6 million college students were taking at least one online course at the start of the 2008-2009 academic year.
As students get older and increasingly seek online or hybrid programs, higher education should focus on developing programs that are geared to this student population’s needs, as well as providing the… Continue reading
Coaching students for life at Notre Dame de Namur
By Heather Murtagh
Twenty-one-year-old Ashley Tuvell was excited to start her junior year at Notre Dame de Namur University last month.
As a transfer student, Tuvell was eager to move forward with her education and start her junior year — one step closer to her ultimate goal of teaching kindergarten. While Tuvell knows her ultimate goal, she also had a lot of questions, like: How to decipher the abbreviations for the buildings on the campus map? How to deal with questions about tuition from parents who are divorced? What are the best ways to make friends as an adult? How… Continue reading
Blog post by Lloyd Armstrong: The State of the Union on college costs
So let me put colleges and universities on notice: If you can’t stop tuition from going up, the funding you get from taxpayers will go down. Higher education can’t be a luxury. It is an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford.
Barak Obama, State of Union 2012
Does this speech signal that the time has finally arrived when the government – which pays a good part of the bill – will step in to limit the rapid and seemingly never ending growth of tuition? In normal times, the answer would… Continue reading
