Sunday, June 9, 2019

The Anti-College Is on the Rise, By Molly Worthen [NYTimes]

The flava:
A small band of students will travel to Sitka, Alaska, this month to help reinvent higher education. They won’t be taking online courses, or abandoning the humanities in favor of classes in business or STEM, or paying high tuition to fund the salaries of more Assistant Vice Provosts for Student Life. They represent a growing movement of students, teachers and reformers who are trying to compensate for mainstream higher education’s failure to help young people find a calling: to figure out what life is really for.

The article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/08/opinion/sunday/college-anti-college-mainstream-universities.html


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