higher education

“Three out of four students are going to higher education for job specific skills. That's a study that's done every year by the Higher Education Research Institute. Four out of five are there for Out of interest for an occupation.”

“Most of the data analytics done in higher education is in a compliance fashion for reporting. We put the data analytics group in the CFO's shop. And it's about performance optimization.”

“The contact hour model encourages you to keep as many students enrolled for as long as you can because you're selling units, semester credit hour units.”

“The mission, however, with Contact Hour funding, the traditional way of funding higher education, Is really focused on what can I sell to a student? So I'm selling programs into the student customer. When we shift the funding model to placement and earnings, n…”

“I think the problem, one of the root problems today in higher education, which is endemic to the culture at large, is, is not so much that everybody, most people, almost everybody in higher education is on one end of the political spectrum, the left, it's the …”

“You start new institutions when you recognize that there's a North Star that you want to aim for, and I think the North Star that we have that we're currently aiming for right now is a kind of renewal of the spirit of the pursuit of truth in higher education.”

“One of the issues at hand in higher education is that a kind of a radical relativism has begun to pervade our institutions of higher learning”

“Largely, especially in econ lesson classics, they teach you how to solve exercises, which can be initially complex, but there's a definite answer that you can arrive at. Computers are really good at exercises. Problems don't have a definite solution, and so yo…”

“Just free speech is not enough. the idea that we're gonna resolve this by just having more speech, I think is naive.”