. . . . Zooze the Horse
Zooze the Horse roams around the pasture near Lamar State College. Zooze thinks about problems in academia. Zhe wants proffies to submit posts (blog posts, not fence posts).
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Report Was In Error: Freshman Enrollment Did Not Decline 5% Last Fall [ Forbes ]
The flava:
The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center today released the following statement from Executive Director Doug Shapiro about an error that affected the freshman enrollment data in its October preliminary fall enrollment report:“The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center has identified a methodological error affecting its calculation of freshman enrollment in the preliminary enrollment report released in October 2024. That report, called the Stay Informed Report, is based on data provided by 50 percent of higher education institutions. The error in research methodology caused the mislabeling of certain students as dual-enrolled rather than as freshmen, and as a result, the number of freshmen was undercounted, and the number of dual-enrolled was overcounted. The error also affected the Special Analysis of 18-year-old Freshmen report released in November.”
The initially reported 5% drop in freshman enrollment was widely covered in news outlets and cited by numerous commentators over the past few months. . . .
The article:
Sunday, January 12, 2025
John Aubrey Douglass: Leading a university is set to become even more difficult.
Monday, January 6, 2025
Friday, January 3, 2025
Sunday, December 29, 2024
Michael S. Roth on elitism and education
--Michael S. Roth, President of Wesleyan University
Friday, December 27, 2024
Are we becoming a post-literate society? [ FT.com ]
The flava:
“Human intelligence,” the cultural critic Neil Postman once wrote, “is among the most fragile things in nature. It doesn’t take much to distract it, suppress it, or even annihilate it.”The year was 1988, a former Hollywood actor was in the White House, and Postman was worried about the ascendancy of pictures over words in American media, culture and politics. Television “conditions our minds to apprehend the world through fragmented pictures and forces other media to orient themselves in that direction,” he argued in an essay in his book Conscientious Objections. “A culture does not have to force scholars to flee to render them impotent. A culture does not have to burn books to assure that they will not be read . . . There are other ways to achieve stupidity.”
What might have seemed curmudgeonly in 1988 reads more like prophecy from the perspective of 2024. This month, the OECD released the results of a vast exercise: in-person assessments of the literacy, numeracy and problem-solving skills of 160,000 adults aged 16-65 in 31 different countries and economies. . . .
The article:
https://www.ft.com/content/e2ddd496-4f07-4dc8-a47c-314354da8d46