There is a sign in a hard-to-reach area of the Rocky Mountain National Forest. The sign reads: “The Mountain Doesn’t Care”. There are stories about talented and experienced climbers who did not survive their mountain adventures. The mountain did what mountains always do. It provided challenges that these climbers could not meet – and some number of them perished in their mountain journeys. We will take a small amount of poetic license and suggest “The Market Doesn’t Care”. The market for higher education does not care what college leaders and board members are trying to do. These leaders do not shape the market – the market shapes them. Don Tuttle, Chairman of the Board – Lindenwood University and Managing Partner, Top Gun Ventures LLC and I share a new paradigm for college presidential selections in this article. #collegeviability The Chronicle of Higher Education Inside Higher Ed
A good short book to read: A Peacock in a Land of Penguins. Imagine the new president as the Peacock and the faculty, staff and trustees as the Penguins.
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12moPeople go to college, mostly to get a degree they need, to get into grad school. They don't actually learn much. The premed curriculum is 95% fake. 4 year grads do not know anything about any of the common diseases. Calculus, physics, statistics, physical chemistry, organic chemistry (as taught), most biology (as taught) don't have anything to do with health. Most 4th year medical students still don't know anything about the common diseases. This is why the cure rate for conventional medicine of the chronic diseases is ZERO. A big joke. This can be taught to anyone with an Iq of 110 in a month. More people would be willing to pay tuition, if colleges hired teachers based on meritocracy, instead of their usual, pathetic, incompetent teaching staff.