Why I love engineering!
Author: Lueny Morell
Passionate about innovation, engineering education and promoting partnerships for economic and social development. Born in Puerto Rico, an engineer, worked at the largest IT company in the world, and currently developing a new engineering school in Silicon Valley. Winner of the 2006 US National Academy of Engineering Gordon Prize for engineering curriculum innovation. Love to serve and help others!
How the Great Recession Reshaped American Higher Education – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Inflection point for universities – to better serve society’s needs.
Purdue U. Global Drops Controversial Nondisclosure Agreement for Professors – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Applaud this decision. Universities are not corporate organizations defending their “product and processes”. They exist to serve society, not themselves.
Higher-education spending is falling – Daily chart
For Stanford, ‘What Better Looks Like’ – Stanford Magazine – Medium
This post follows the one just published. This is a great institutional mission statement. Rankings should demonstrate how well an institution achieves its unique mission.
https://medium.com/stanford-magazine/stanford-president-speaks-about-universitys-future-2999b2baff6f
US News’ 2019 college rankings are here, but who’s keeping score? | Education Dive
What should rankings measure? My short list ordered by the three-pronged mission of higher education:
Education:
- Degree of accomplishment of graduate competencies development [needed by employers/society]
- Graduation rate, time to graduation (teaching/learning effectiveness)
- Graduates’ ability to pay education debt (roi)
R&D
- R&D portfolio – Pertinence of R&D at local, regional & global levels
- Impact of research (short, medium, long-term)
- External recognition (quality not necessarily quantity)
Service
- Time & effort dedicated to internal & external community service
- Quality of the above
- Recognition
One overall ranking should gather all of the above according to institution’s unique mission and would indicate the institution’s degree of addressing society’s needs. There ought to be rankings for different kinds of institutions (e.g., research as primary focus; education as primary focus; mixed)
The BIG Reasons Teacher’s Don’t Share Their Awesomeness. (Part 2 of 2) #flipblogs – Flipped Learning Network Hub
Good piece. Lived through some of it.
