Fishy Higher Ed Reforms

Two new online exclusives on private initiatives to reform higher education:

In an effort to make CUNY more efficient (that is, graduate more students for the same number of dollars), Pathways would undermine the traditional liberal undergraduate curriculum—where students are expected to study and master the basics of a vast array of different subjects—and replace it with a stripped down “common core” that simplifies graduation and transfer at the expense of rigor and academic standards…Read more on the CUNY Pathways Initiative