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Erik Torenberg • The Higher Education Bubble Pt. 2
Mihir Desai • The Trouble with Optionality
His change in plans, the decision to stay, came one year after his arrival, in September 1847, when he was offered the chair of natural history at the Lawrence Scientific School, an institution newly established at Harvard partly for the purpose of keeping him in the United States.
David McCullough • Brave Companions
Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education.
Clayton M. Christensen • The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
The problem for Lewis and his fellow professors was the Boston Globe's 2001 discovery that more than half of Harvard College grades were A's and A-minuses, and that more than 90 percent of graduates earned honors. A New York Times article declared, “Harvard, long a center of excellence in so many forms, is becoming known as a pioneer in grade infla
... See moreClayton M. Christensen • The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out
More than 80 percent of government research money goes to just one hundred academic institutions.3