This time it’s different: “ever since Plato” department (short)
Posted: June 25, 2012 Filed under: Notes, Reading, Universities | Tags: business school, economics, funding, plato, public no more (book) 1 Comment »From Public no more: A new path to excellent for America’s public universities, in which two business school deans explain how following the b-school model will improve higher education:
The belief that higher education should be funded by society dates back at least to the fourth century BCE, when Plato’s academy offered free admission to selected students–a philosophy that prevailed throughout most of history. Today we face a different and challenging environment… (3).
Talk about the need for transformative change!
