Tag Archives: Higher Education
Millennials Should Learn Trades, Say College Educated Writers
This NPR piece, and other like it based on the arguments of economist Anthony Carnevale of Georgetown University, have been making the rounds on my social media over the past few weeks. The NPR journalist, Chris Arnold, builds on Carnevale’s work to argue that … Continue reading
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Tagged Higher Education, media
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College Admissions and the Commodification of Experience
The academic social-media-o-sphere has been abuzz for the past couple of weeks with discussion of William Deresiewicz’s piece in the New Republic entitled “Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League.” The piece was an obvious piece of clickbait (as Salon put … Continue reading
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Tagged Academia, Higher Education, History, Tourism
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