The Future of the Collegiate Campus

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by cusack • 11 years ago

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trevdarc• 11 years ago

The institutions that can afford to attract the experts themselves should continue to do so, as Minerva is doing and the Ivy Leagues will continue to do. Those that can’t attract experts (the inherent majority) should start more heavily leveraging third-party curricula rather than producing second-tier courses designed internally.

Agreed, but not at the expense of specialization. Core curriculum access across regions could be powerful, but also limiting. A good example of this is graduate school applications: many graduate programs will hesitate to offer admission to students who have attended the same university for their undergraduate work, the assumption being that students should acquire a diverse set of perspectives to create their own ideas.

nsnick• 11 years ago

This is not true at elite universities. If you are already attending the top ranked university in your field and you want to go to graduate school, they will generally not make you go elsewhere. One of the reasons for this is that students from less rigorous universities my not have enough background to deal with the academic expectations of an elite university.

The Future of the Collegiate Campus

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