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At least for higher education, I think it's a little more difficult to scale than this piece makes. Higher education has a very entrenched culture of obsessing
by jeffe 6y ago
At least for higher education, I think it's a little more difficult to scale than this piece makes. Higher education has a very entrenched culture of obsessing with fundraising, accumulation of prestige through factors tangential to education quality, and exploitation of undergrad/grad labor. My state school tried to 'build' enrollments in it's historically competitive STEM majors and I just saw these problematic factors become worse; increased reliance on underpaid student TAs, with additional funding being dumped into band-aids such as tutoring programs fractured between departments and stress relief fairs. For higher education it needs complete cultural or policy reform to focus on educating and eliminate cruft, before we can start building it out.