interdisciplinary

Computer Science + X Is a Recipe for Mediocrity

Inside Higher Ed reports on a new trend: universities creating programs that combine two academic programs. This might not seem particularly new to anyone who attended college in the last fifty years, but it is spiced with a bit of novelty now. The emphasis this time is on combining any of the various subjects with […]

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This Is a Bold New Plan for Higher Ed?

Mark C. Taylor’s Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities (Knopf) is neither as bold nor as innovative as he would like us to believe. What purports “to begin a national conversation about transforming our institutions of higher learning” merely continues the postmodern assault on higher learning that began in […]

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