Readings & Resources
Author: Michael Roy - Date: October 8th, 2012
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Ripley, A. (n.d.). College Is Dead. Long Live College! Time. Retrieved from http://nation.time.com/2012/10/18/college-is-dead-long-live-college/
Don’t make an economic case for the liberal arts (essay) | Inside Higher Ed. (n.d.). Retrieved December 17, 2012, from http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2012/10/23/dont-make-economic-case-liberal-arts-essay
McArdle, M. (2012, September 9). Is College a Lousy Investment? The Daily Beast. Retrieved December 17, 2012, from http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/09/09/megan-mcardle-on-the-coming-burst-of-the-college-bubble.html
Ferguson, N. (2012, August 27). Niall Ferguson: College Becoming the New Caste System. The Daily Beast. Retrieved December 17, 2012, from http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/08/26/niall-ferguson-college-becoming-the-new-caste-system.html
Our 19th-Century Curriculum. (n.d.). Retrieved December 17, 2012, from http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/our-19th-century-curriculum_653241.html
Guthrie, D. (2012, December 17). Jump Off the Coursera Bandwagon. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/article/Jump-Off-the-Coursera/136307/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en
The End of the University as We Know It - Nathan Harden - The American Interest Magazine. (n.d.). Retrieved December 17, 2012, from http://the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=1352
Stanley Fish - Opinionator - NYTimes.com. (n.d.). Retrieved December 17, 2012, from http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/author/stanley-fish/
Williams, A. (2012, November 30). Saying No to College. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/fashion/saying-no-to-college.html
Faculty Debate Impact of edX. (n.d.). The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved December 17, 2012, from http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/12/12/faculty-edx-courses-debate/
GRIMSHAW: Let’s reimagine Yale education | Yale Daily News. (n.d.). Retrieved December 17, 2012, from http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2012/12/12/grimshaw-lets-reimagine-yale-education/
Faculty consider online education | Yale Daily News. (n.d.). Retrieved December 17, 2012, from http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2012/12/07/faculty-consider-online-education/
Essay on the idea of a useful liberal arts | Inside Higher Ed. (n.d.). Retrieved December 17, 2012, from http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2012/11/26/essay-idea-useful-liberal-arts
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