Thousands March in Chile to Protest High Cost of College

May 13, 2011, 11:37 am

Thousands of Chilean students marched in Santiago and other cities Thursday demanding more government support for higher education. “Chile is a very poor country, and it’s time for the government to start helping out its students financially,” José Manuel Morales, a student at Universidad de Chile, told The Santiago Times. “The main goal of this demonstration is to get the state to take charge of higher education.” Tuition in Chile is among the world’s highest when compared with the country’s per-capita gross domestic product, the newspaper reported.

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To respond to the request for evidence of liberal bias – if you click on the author’s hyperlinks for Gross & Yancey, you’ll see his extensive recitation of those researchers’ reports. Gross, et al, theory as to why:

‘E. Because “The professoriate acquired a reputation as a liberal occupation” and liberals today “acting on the basis of this reputation and seeking careers that accord with their political identities, are more likely than conservatives to aspire to become academics.” [The self-selection theory]…’This catalog of explanations is to be found in the first 11 pages of a new working paper by Ethan Fosse, Jeremy Freese, and Neil Gross, released yesterday. Their answer is an emphatic E. “Self-selection” in their view is the only answer for which they can find robust empirical support.’As a professional advocate (attorney), I’d have to agree with Wood, et al – you undercut your own advocacy, and lose a lot of your audience, when you present only 1 side of any argument. You’re simply not being as objective as you can be, and, in my view, what you should be as a teacher – rather than a propagandist. That doesn’t stop most advocates from going ahead and preaching to the choir (speaking to core constituency) – it just means that they are likely to lose non-choir members.I went to college in the 70s, and it sure seems to me that academics have gotten more involved in spouting opinion rather than information – much like most media. I’ve stopped reading most ‘news’, because there is more opinion than fact, and I discount any ‘study’ coming from any kind of advocacy organization. And, unfortunately, that includes more & more academics.I’ve grown more skeptical the more experience I have, so maybe that’s my bias showing – maybe its been more biased this way than I thought in my naive teenage innocence.Still, it accords with my 30+ years of experience in advocacy.
peterwwood

hank_devereaux_jr, lrtuttle, and frankschmidt are skeptical about the factual basis of some of my statements. The post is full of links to back-up material. I don’t take posting to Innovations as requiring a disquisition on sources, especially since these are matters that are widely documented and heavily discussed elsewhere. Curiously, Mr. Devereaux, in faulting my data, cites the U.S. Department of Education to the effect that “there are approximately 17 million students enrolled in U.S. colleges an universities.” The actual Department of Education figure for 2010 is 19.1 million.

Mr. Schmidt finds me unfamiliar with “current events” because he can’t find in my bio a history of my having worked at public institutions. In fact, early in my career, I taught at two community colleges, and I later served as a volunteer college instructor in a prison program, which is about as public as it gets. But no matter: the idea that only people employed in public institutions have the right or the ability to speak about what goes on in them is vapid and silly.

I was arrested by eberg’s comparison of my views to those of Stanley Fish. I read and reviewed Save the World on Your Own Time here: http://www.nas.org/polarticles.cfm?doctype_code=Article&doc_id=322. As I said there, “Fish is expert at appearing to be a provocative dissenter from the status quo while actually supporting it.” I stand by that. Those who want a fuller unpacking of how Fish and I differ should read the article.

Peter Wood
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Andcould we have a show of hands of those who believe elimination of preferential treatment for minorities and women be a bad thing?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=560265941 Adam Rhinehart

Excellent post! Of the several dozen faculty we work with through the UGA Costa Rica program, we have the most productive (and pleasant!) professional relationships with those that we invite into our offices to see just what it is that we do. I sincerely believe there is a marked difference in our effectiveness as EA professionals when we take the time to communicate our roles clearly and kindly to program faculty. We are, after all, two essential parts of the same team!
http://twitter.com/MandysMashups Mandy R

Thanks everyone for all your great comments. I am glad to hear that this has created some discussion. I will say that there are quite a few faculty I have worked with that get it or parts of it but most of us still come into contact much too often with those that don’t.
http://twitter.com/MandysMashups Mandy R

Thanks for your comment. Hopefully this will generate some discussion among faculty about our roles and how we interact.
http://twitter.com/MandysMashups Mandy R

So true. We are basically our own college rolled into one office and definitely without the necessary support staff!