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Our Underachieving Colleges

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01.: Christina MaslachOpening Remarks

04 min 14 sec

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02.: Derek Bok Intro

03 min 02 sec

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03.: Our UnderachievingColleges?

02 min 02 sec

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04.: Critical Thinking

01 min 09 sec

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05.: Writing Competence

00 min 58 sec

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06.: Quantitative Reasoning

00 min 20 sec

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07.: Literacy

00 min 30 sec

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08.: Foreign Language

01 min 15 sec

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09.: Hign SchoolIncompetency

00 min 56 sec

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10.: Colleges Not Teaching

02 min 12 sec

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11.: Moral Development

00 min 52 sec

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12.: Citizenship

01 min 11 sec

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13.: Importance ofUnderachieving

02 min 52 sec

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14.: Enlightened Citizens

02 min 53 sec

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15.: Needed Changes

02 min 15 sec

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16.: Intensify Research

01 min 21 sec

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17.: Learning Organizations

00 min 59 sec

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18.: Conflict of Interest

01 min 42 sec

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19.: Positive Prospects

03 min 53 sec

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20.: Q & A

18 min 14 sec

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phiscal

Posted: 05.06.09, 08:58 AM

As a graduate of a public university, Derek Bok confirms my suspicion that higher ed's mediocrity is formidable. We seem to have excellent universities at the top. Or at least the students are excellent. In the middle, however, the skills kids graduate with are abysmal. Why? The system is not accountable to the parents in any meaningful way. It's that taxpayer dependent business model again. Higher ed is too well insulated from society's real needs (and parents) for productive citizens to respond to that need. The institution is too intent on producing kids that view the world as professors do, not on producing kids that can view the world as it is. In many instances, the two appear to be widely divergent.

amzwilliams

Posted: 06.20.06, 12:47 PM

I think there needs to be an examination of how education today differs from past generations. Also, how does our current social and cultural climate contribute to our requirements in higher education. While foreign language indisputably needs to be further developed, so do the studies that we already consider to be an integral component of education such as basic writing and reading skills. In addition, how has the economics of education played a role, if any, in the disintegration of learning?

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FORA.tv Staff

Posted: 05.19.06, 01:23 PM

Glad to see someone with this perspective coming in at Harvard. It's going to require the kind of leverage and visible platform that very few institutions (Harvard being one) can provide in order to bring about any meaningful changes in our educational culture.

briankgruber

Posted: 05.19.06, 10:26 AM

Interesting speech.

RoyalWe

Posted: 05.19.06, 01:48 AM

We might be. The flaws are so entrenched that any meaningful change is going to generate plenty of opposition and plenty of pain.

ProfessorTruth

Posted: 05.19.06, 01:41 AM

Is America--are we--afraid to come to terms with the dumbing down of our education? Do we worry that we'll compromise equality by allowing for or asking for excellence? That by raising the bar too high too many will be left behind? If we are we'd better get over it fast.

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FORA.tv Staff

Posted: 05.19.06, 01:25 AM

This is a timely commentary. The mediocrity of American education is embarrassing. It is, I think, both institutional and cultural.... would like to see this work generate some buzz and some motion. The need for systematic elevation of our foreign language learning and teaching is especially obvious.