Tuesday, July 2, 2013

A New Model for Higher Education


The above link is to an initiation document for the Professional Society of Academics proposal.  It is in draft form.  Contribution is most welcome.


It presents the professional alternative as a bid for the higher education social contract, which has been recently and unofficially forced opened by crises across the triad, such as: 1) The purchase of accreditation through private "revitalization investment" in a growing number of struggling or near defunct institutions; 2)  The meteoric rise of private and public ventures into Massive Open Online Courses; 3) The continued reduction in public support for everything from higher education finance to its philosophy...

This tender is part of a larger reform effort wherein the service, governance, finance and representation features of the professions are combined with those of the co-operative model in use since the early 19th century.  This professional/co-operative model can place higher education in the social economy, at a comfortable distance from capitalist or state involvement.

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