Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Can You Say NACIQI?
Inside Higher Ed: "Judging from Monday’s meeting of NACIQI (nuh-SEEK-ee), the first since Education Secretary Margaret Spellings and the report of her Commission on the Future of Higher Education put major changes in accreditation near the top of their reform agenda, that visibility is likely to turn up the pressure on accreditors and colleges to provide tangible proof that they are educating their students."
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In light of recent higher education controversy, is this panel actually going to enforce change, or is this just a small attempt to appear to implement change. We should all be aware of the controversy surrounding Harvard President Lawrence Summers who resigned his position in the spring. What you may not be aware of is that prior to his controversial women and science comments, Summers was already unpopular with faculty for his plan to implement stricker policies on the grading and requirements for students at Harvard. It seems to be a pervasive problem that many top tier schools will do anything possible to graduate as many of the students they accept as they can. This is the true failure of education. Just because a student gets into a school does not mean that student should float through the school and graduate. In order for education to work, there must be standards and implementation.
I agree with Ms. Lake. As a student at the Heinz School I witness first hand the somewhat lax attitutde extended towards grads and thier grades. And while I am in favor of curving overall grading as to remain a consistent measure of class aptitude, I do believe that many professors like to pad their student's grades in order for them to prove their worth as a teacher. As anyone in a grad program knows, the professor's main purpose is continue unhindered with their research and to do so, there students must appear to be exceling within their course.
-J Bogush
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