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Stanford are doing more than most to kill the traditional university (see Coursera and Udacity). It's only natural that Stanford-the-institution should be tryin
by noelwelsh 13y ago
Stanford are doing more than most to kill the traditional university (see Coursera and Udacity). It's only natural that Stanford-the-institution should be trying to change the model so it can survive. It isn't clear to me that giving students learning opportunities likes running a real company with real investors is a bad use of a university.
- mattlutze 13y agoMy undergrad university has had a program[1] where students start/run actual companies for at least the last decade. The school helps secure grants or contracts with industry partners and the students work on actual problems. If you want credit you still have to pay like a class. However, for a number of them at least the managers had salaries that met or exceeded their course cost, and some everyone was paid. Michigan Tech feeds to the biotech and automotive industries particularly in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin given the location, and a lot of the enterprises have done some cool things with those fields, as well as some defense work. 1: http://www.mtu.edu/enterprise/ http://www.mtu.edu/enterprise/
- mturmon 13y agoNice point. The article is smart in pointing out the conflict-of-interest between professors encouraging star students to work on their commercial ventures. But the article oversteps in saying this is the main thing that's going on at Stanford. It's a big place. My connection with Stanford is working with solar physicists there who developed a series of space instruments to observe the Sun -- a big effort, lots of people, hardware, and computers, but nothing commercial about it.