Thank God the economy’s so stable

admin September 29, 2008 academic computing, higher education 2 Comments

so we in higher ed don’t have to worry about folks questioning the value of a college degree, particularly when we have “open teaching,” where faculty use web tools to open course enrollment to non-matriculated students and hand out certificates of completion in lieu of official transcripts. Thank God the market’s doing well so we don’t have to worry about this newfangled world where content is free, knowledge is open, access is expected, and we get to be all creative when we’re not playing halo and shopping at Costco. What’s that about the economy? Uh oh. Time to take some massage classes for my next career. Or maybe I could be the next vice president–did I say that I can see Uranus from here?…. Is Starbucks hiring?

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2 Responses to “Thank God the economy’s so stable”

  1. essprit said:

    Sep 29, 08 at 7:35 pm

    This is probably a good time to be happy the middle letter in your title is “T” and not “F”. Bless their hearts, as they say in my part of the country. What a hard job they must have!

  2. admin said:

    Sep 30, 08 at 3:00 pm

    I can’t imagine. I guess the “good” news, for smaller, more tuition-dependent schools like mine, is that the larger your endowment, the more you’ve probably lost. I wonder what college enrollment was like in the Great Depression?

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