Re: Zemsky’s ‘Making American Higher Education a Sustainable Enterprise’

Some blog followers might be interested in a recent post ] “Re: Zemsky's ‘Making American Higher Education a Sustainable Enterprise’ ” [Hake (2013)]. The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: Chris Parr (2013) in a report “Robert Zemsky's solution for US problems” at http://bit.ly/1eLyoZn wrote: In “Checklist for Change” [Zemsky at http://bit.ly/188VYrx ]. . . . . starts with the academics themselves . . . . “faculty just aren’t persuaded that they know what to do. They don’t want to make the mess worse, so they’re waiting.”

I’ve heard Zemsky's derogation of faculty before. In “NRC’s CUSE: Stranded on Assessless Island?” [Hake (2013a)] at http://bit.ly/184OVC4 I wrote: “[Zemsky] has missed the boat with respect to the potential reform of undergraduate education through education research by disciplinary experts as monitored by rigorous pre/post testing.. . .[He] is in the good company of CUSE and its workshop participants, who appear to be STRANDED ON ASSESSLESS ISLAND with no way to gauge the need for, or effect of, educational reform strategies.”
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REFERENCES [URL shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 17 Sept. 2013.]
Hake, R.R. 2013. Re: Zemsky's 'Making American Higher Education a Sustainable Enterprise' online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/1a189YT. Post of 17 Sep 2013 14:02:46-0400 to AERA-L, NetGold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to various discussion lists.