Robert H. Perry, founder of R.H. Perry & Associates, a Washington-based search firm, said at Monday’s Council of Independent Colleges conference that he planned to create a new nonprofit foundation that will provide pro bono trustee-search services to financially strapped colleges starting in July, Scott Carlson reports on The Chronicle’s Web site. Read more.
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3 Responses to Recruiting Trustees
22000394 - June 27, 2011 at 4:18 pm
In my own discipline, and in my own experience, yes, certainly, the barbarians are at the gate and are demanding that we deliver market-oriented skills training. I, on the other hand, would like to think that our students were still getting an education instead. But I am in a discipline that is desperate for talent and yet has few students signing on, so the trend is away from teaching thinking and toward developing skills with tools.
The good news is that we also have a number of students who realise that the general populace, and thus the political populace, are woefully undereducated about how to create proper policy in this century, and many of our students are stepping up and will offer an understanding of human values even in a market-oriented and technology-driven culture.
It could be better, but it could also be worse.
theron1 - June 28, 2011 at 2:42 pm
Ms. Churchill asks: “Can we create a model that simultaneously meets the demands of democracy and capitalism? Or is education, like health care, doomed to sit at the uncomfortable crossroads between our political dreams and our economic realities?” It is the wrong question. As Thomas Pynchon notes in Gravity’s Rainbow: If they get you to asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.
To claim capitalism as currently constructed is reality misses the fact that it is a human construct run for the benefit of humans…not an external reality. Perhaps the better question is: if education reveals a chasm between the demands of democracy and capitalism, how can we alter the capitalist system? Alerta anti-fascistas.
eskort - September 26, 2011 at 4:25 pm
Thank you for sharing. Bayan