Matt Welsh makes the case for fixing the academic value system to unleash the tremendous potential of faculty members and universities. Entrepreneurship and university innovation incubators all can play key roles. …
Innovative Way to Encourage Innovation Among Students
From Wired Campus (The Chronicle of Higher Education), "Start-Up Lets Graduates Raise Money in Exchange for a Share of Future Earnings." …
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The college-cost calamity: Many American universities are in financial trouble
It is old news that college costs have far out-paced wages over the past generation. The real question that universities will ultimately have to face, just like any other business, is what is the value add? How are the charges justified? Let's …
Expanding our Minds: Collaboration
I benefit from collaboration every day. But collaboration and interdisciplinarity is structurally challenging, especially in Higher Ed where well-defined fields and siloed thinking are the norm and expected to be maintained if one seeks to advance …
“Values are as Real as Grain Prices”
"Values are as Real as Grain Prices." An excellent one page article/interview by Carlos Eire, Yale Professor of History and Religious Studies. In Yale University Divinity School publication Reflections. Great quotes: "Beliefs and values actually …
Accountability and Greed in Investment Banking.
"The failure of socialist regimes: one important explanation is that the underlying informal norms of what people do with their work lives were never integrated with the planned economies in an effective way." Yale Lecture 12 on Capitalism, …
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