Higher Education at Scale by David J. Staley
This autumn, my institution, The Ohio State University, welcomed the largest number of students ever to its Columbus campus: over 61,000 students. For at least the last century, and certainly since the 1950s, Ohio State has been one of the largest campuses in the country. But today, even the size of Ohio State pales before […]
Redesigning the University by David J. Staley
If you could start a university today from scratch, what would you create? Most of us will never be offered this inviting opportunity. Stephen Lehmkuhle was so fortunate, recounting his efforts as the founding chancellor of the University of Minnesota at Rochester in his memoir Campus With Purpose: Building a Mission-Driven Campus. Aside from being […]
Who should pay for job training? David J. Staley Ph.D.
I was leafing through a Forbes magazine in 2019 while on a flight and came upon an extraordinary advertisement. Featured prominently was a young woman in a college-style sweatshirt, which in block letters bore not the name of her university but rather the figure $67,928. “Why did she borrow $67,928 for tuition?” the advertisement asks. […]
A University for Polymaths By David J. Staley
One of the speculative designs in my book Alternative Universities was titled “Polymath University.” This would be an institution where, as a condition for graduation, a student must major in three disparate disciplines. So, rather than majoring in History, English and Philosophy or Accounting, Finance and Actuarial Science—each cognate disciplines to the others—a student would […]
The University and Truth by David J. Staley
We welcome David J. Staley, Ph.D. as guest author for this week’s IngenioUs blog. To hear more of Dr. Staley’s insights about the future of universities, check out this IngenioUs podcast conversation: https://anchor.fm/chelip/episodes/Imagining-the-University-of-the-Future-with-Dr–David-J–Staley-ejiuu9 Karl Jaspers began his 1946 book The Idea of the University with these words: The university is a community of scholars and students […]
“Epistemological Culling” and the Future of Universities by David J. Staley
We welcome David J. Staley, Ph.D. as guest author for this week’s IngenioUs blog. To hear more of Dr. Staley’s insights about the future of universities, check out this IngenioUs podcast conversation: https://anchor.fm/chelip/episodes/Imagining-the-University-of-the-Future-with-Dr–David-J–Staley-ejiuu9 This is a cover from Roswell Park’s 1841 book Pantology: Or a Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge. “The present work,” he began […]