Are there disadvantages to an elite education? Is William Deresiewicz merely a contrarian? Ivy Gate “the Ivy League blog [that] covers news, gossip, sex, sports and more at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale” posted responses to his essay.
Anti-intellectualism is only one of the disadvantages of an elite education that essayist and critic William Deresiewicz lists in his take-down of Yale and Ivy League schools in general. Deresiewicz is a Columbia alum and –until 2008, the year of this essay– was an associate professor at Yale. In “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education,” [...]
A couple of days ago, David Brooks made the argument for studying the humanities even in this economic climate, when having a practical skill—Brooks offers accounting as an example– seems most likely to get you a job. Studying the humanities improves your ability to read and write. No matter what you do in life, you [...]
My alma mater Kent State University recently hosted Ohio’s first state-wide conference aimed at helping colleges better serve military veterans on campus. Topics at the conference ( “Ohio Universities Serving Those Who SERVE”) ranged from discussing ways to help vets manage education benefits and registration issues, to offering online courses, to making Vietnam and Korean [...]