I\u2019ve spend the last three hours reading education articles in the NYTimes, Chronicle of Higher Education, and related links.\u00a0 Let me relate this to my own institution. We are tuition driven, and without sufficient paying students, Villanova as you know it would not exist. Villanova has some excellent humanities programs. If you can afford them, and you love learning, they are wonderful and worth every penny. If you have limited funds and\u00a0expect this education (BA, MA, PhD) to be financially productive and\/or think that you will be employable in your area of interest, in\u00a0some cases you have been misinformed. Keep in mind that academic institutions are big business and have some of the same ethical slipperiness of any other business when it comes to financial issues.<\/p>\n
\u00a0At the start of my academic career four decades ago, I would have been viewed as being much stronger in my profession (getting my Ph.D. from Princeton at age 23) than I was later on. However, academic specialties require a lot of time, and as a result I was much less knowledgeable about the larger issues of the world at that time than I am today. I appreciate that I later had the opportunity to more fully educate myself and thereby to also better educate my students. More recently (before my retirement to adjunct status), the increased pressures and work load that I experienced in academe\u00a0served\u00a0\u00a0to work aganst\u00a0my\u00a0efforts to broaden my\u00a0education. Now working part time, my mind feels freed again, and I appreciate the opportunity to interact on line (and at times in person) with some of the best educated and brightest people in the country. I feel that I am holding my own with them, although\u00a0it\u00a0can be\u00a0a lot of work and take a lot of time. \u00a0Often, I\u2019d rather be outside. So why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019ve spend the last three hours reading education articles in the NYTimes, Chronicle of Higher Education, and related links.\u00a0 Let me relate this to my own institution. We are tuition driven, and without sufficient paying students, Villanova as you know it would not exist. Villanova has some excellent humanities programs. If you can afford them, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}