Last spring, Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano gave his first take-home midterm. He immediately suspected “massive cheating,” because the grade distribution was, in his words, “absurd.”
The liberal arts have never been about accumulating isolated bodies of knowledge. They have been about helping students recognize relationships among ideas.
Trustees do not need to be CFOs, but they do need to understand the financial drivers that determine whether an institution is stable, vulnerable, or on a slow glide path toward distress.
Roberto Serrano was shocked when he saw the results of the midterm exam in his advanced mathematical economics class at Brown University last semester.
The biggest payoffs for students seeking bachelor’s degrees occurred in engineering and architecture; business and economics; and security and protective services degrees.
President Donald Trump said he plans to issue an executive order within a week addressing disputes over the structure and economics of college sports. The announcement followed a White House roundtable where athletic leaders called for federal action on name, image and likeness rules.
Our own active practice of such freely chosen "deliberate amateurism" might help inspire in our students a love for lifetime learning and the world readiness that comes with it.
