Comments on: Humanities Grad School and its Discontents http://diyubook.com/2011/08/humanities-grad-school-and-its-discontents/ Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the coming transformation of higher education Thu, 18 Jul 2013 18:44:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Peter Hanley http://diyubook.com/2011/08/humanities-grad-school-and-its-discontents/comment-page-1/#comment-5370 Peter Hanley Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:27:49 +0000 http://diyubook.com/?p=503#comment-5370 "The academy is in trouble because its business model no longer works." The academy is in trouble because we have decided it is a business. This is the error. Education is too expensive to be profitable, it makes much better business sense when viewed as a loss we can't afford to not take. “The academy is in trouble because its business model no longer works.”

The academy is in trouble because we have decided it is a business. This is the error. Education is too expensive to be profitable, it makes much better business sense when viewed as a loss we can’t afford to not take.

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