...with thanks to +George Station for the seasonally appropriate and timely reminder about Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol. You'll be back to regular schedules all too soon. I cannot say the same for myself despite (or due to) Janus posts due on multiple blogs. Until then, I and my sundry personae will be out and about on social media and re-blogging elsewhere. The college version Carol from the archives, covers routine topical posting and is as timely now as it was in 2012. If you need more post-season caroling about the state of education, check out Ken Previti's 2014 Christmas Carol post on Reclaim Education, another Education Blogger Network blog. [Ed note: opening paragraph edited/updated 1/2/2015]
...from the archives, Saturday, December 29, 2012: A College Christmas Carol
…at Remaking the University, Chris Newfield compares "A Christmas carol" to current stories of struggling, indebted students.
Elsewhere, Stephen Downes comments on the same NYT article that Newfield references, "T[he students] need a broader array of social supports, and most of all, a society determined to help them out of poverty, rather than blame them for being in it. But I see no sign higher education as a sector has any real interest in that." Newfield calls for that to change and tasks senior college officials with working to restore the bankruptcy option...lest Marley's fate await them...
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