The flava:American higher education was in crisis long before the coronavirus showed up at our doors. For what feels like an eternity, our sector has been criticized for being too slow to respond to changing realities. Student debt in the United States totals more than $1.5 trillion. Alternative credential providers are nipping at the heels of degree-granting schools. Unfavorable demographic trends suggest that the number of college students will decline. In this environment, we face fair questions about higher education’s business model, cost, and long-term prospects—and about whom higher education ultimately serves. Do we serve the students and families who appear at our doors each fall full of hope and faith? Or does self-preservation come first?
The pandemic makes those questions more urgent than ever. . . .
The article:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/colleges-that-reopen-are-making-a-big-mistake/611485/
By Michael J. Sorrell, President of Paul Quinn College
Michael Sorrell on 2020 HBCU virtual commencement
ReplyDeleteBarack Obama on 2020 HBCU virtual commencement
I may sound like a kid whistling past the graveyard, especially considering how we're facing a 10% budget cut this year. Still, my university may well escape the worst of what's coming: but only because the community depends on us so much economically, thanks to the thoroughly fucked-up social milieu that is the poorest large city in the state. Fucking great.
ReplyDelete