The university and economic growth

Date: 2009.12.03 | Category: General | Tags:

Courtesy of Seth Roberts, this interesting article by Philip Greenspun on the future of universities.

I think the next few years (after the initial stages of grief) will be a very interesting time for big state universities. My current employer, the University of Michigan, has respond in some pretty creative ways to the long downslide in financial support from the state. I think that what we teach students and (particularly) how we teach them will undergo some real changes, and I hope that that ferment will lead to improvements.