Don't Colleges
and Universities have the best educators?
"All of the rewards for promotion and tenure have very
little to do with teaching and everything to do with how many
articles a professor can publish. The late Ernest Boyer,
former vice president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching, said, 'Winning the campus distinguished teaching award
is the kiss of death when it comes time for tenure.' "
(Dr.
Marty Nemko* - 'America's Most Overrated Product: Undergraduate
Education')
When evaluating post high school
education, serious effort must be made to identify the true
objectives of the institution -- and how it's performance compares
to your own expectations and standards.
The majority of colleges are run as a
'business' and are therefore primarily interested in
the profits available to them.
"The predominant mode of instruction in
the new millennium is the same
mode of instruction used in
Socrates' time: the lecture... Why? Because colleges are a business
like any other business, and the lecture is the lowest-cost way of
disseminating knowledge."
(Dr.
Marty Nemko* - 'America's Most Overrated Product: Undergraduate
Education')
When the objective of a college or
university's 'education' is simply to provide 'knowledge', and
no mechanism for practical application exists -- no
resulting 'transformation' of the student occurs. This results
in the student becoming nothing more than a glorified spectator
(and a revenue source for the institution).
"In 1990, Harvard's endowment was three BILLION dollars,
already a huge sum. Their endowment now is twenty billion dollars.
And what did they do with the extra money? Did they rebate it to the
students? No. They increased their tuition, and not only did they
increase it, they increased at more than the level of inflation.
Colleges have been left to go unaccountable and, like any other
business, they will make as much money as they can."
(Dr. Marty Nemko* - 'America's Most Overrated
Product: Undergraduate Education')
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*Dr. Marty Nemko is among the
nation's most sought-after experts on both career and education
issues. Dr. Nemko's extensive credentials and biography can be found
online at: http://www.martynemko.com/bio.shtm | 
