Dean Dad daydreams about the ideal community college beyond small classes, on site child care, and good public transportation.
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Dean Dad daydreams about the ideal community college beyond small classes, on site child care, and good public transportation. Excelencia In Education aims to accelerate higher education success for Latino students. Excelencia links research, policy, and practice to serve Latino students and the institutions and programs where they participate. Of special interest is the “What Works” section that contains reports on effective education programs for Latino students from Early Childhood to Higher Education. To counterbalance reviews on Web sites like RateMyProfessors.com (RMP), some institutions ponder publishing students’ evaluations of professors. Some professors express their concerns:
Yes, I have visited the website to check on professors and to check if anyone rated me for my teaching a few years ago (no one did). But to be honest, the reviews found there can’t be taken too seriously. Consider this:
Just out of curiosity, I checked the RMP reviews for my professors at RPI. One of my professors had only 1 review that said: “Excellent clarity”. Most of my classmates back then would disagree with that evaluation, but that person’s experience is the only one registered at the site. Good luck to whoever takes this professor’s class expecting clarity. RMP does maintain a funniest ratings list that is worth reading. Educated women considering the option to become a Stay At Home Mom (SAHM) have one more thing to worry about other than lost income and retirement savings: student loan repayment.
A deferement or an extended repayment period (with smaller payments) could also be solutions. I’m taking a course in History of Higher Education in the US. So far, we’ve read about Higher Ed from the foundation of the Colonial Colleges (beginning with Harvard in 1636) to the end of the 19th century. Some things that stand out:
Over an adult’s working life:
Source: Census Bureau. The Big Payoff: Educational
In 19th century America, the success of the self-made man led to the perception of higher education as a diversion. At that time going to college was not the way to move up on life; on the contrary it took young men away from the pursuit of wealth. McCarthy was the first word that came to mind when I read about UCLA’s Bruin Alumni Association project to “expose radical professors” . I don’t think it has anything to do with professors proselytizing in the classroom; it is just a witch hunt to ridicule liberal professors. This is the type of thing that happened in the old Soviet Union, not in the USA. I’ll use this blog to reflect on news about Higher Education with a special interest on Higher Ed in Florida and developements for engineering students, women and Hispanics. In other words: Higher Ed news that affect me! Well, not really. I’m no longer an engineering student, but I plan to study engineering education from an educator’s perspective. PS. What is a Florirican? A Floridian from Puerto Rico, and no you can’t find that word in the dictionary. I grew up in Puerto Rico and went to school there until I finished my BS in Computer Engineering. In 1998 I came to the US to do my Masters in Engineering (at RPI) and work (at Lucent Technologies). After living in Chicagoland for 4+ years I moved to Florida in 2003. |
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