Oplerno The Higher Education Revolution, 19 Jan 2016

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A

Anything you want to talk about in terms of the higher ed Rev and then there's just one article long that I'd like to discuss and sort of what it um what it means. So now, even if repairs I.

B

Read revolution goes, there's a. Are you a I love public, promoting also other publications, so there's a new publication of student voices really really interesting publication. A plan has been asked to write it or something for them. So, of course, we've eaten too. We should mrs. something to them yeah interesting upcoming year. So if you, if you want more information, so I mean email or tweet, we know something that, but I read revolution fantastic, quitting we're going well. We have over close to 1,500 people, yeah I'm amazed.

B

I've also asked for new writers to come aboard as a protest call for new writers to come aboard. So if you were, if you have some something that you want to write or if it's something interesting subject, you want to discuss whether it's about your course whether it's about another interesting subjects on higher education, then you're very welcome to to submit it and we'll put a publish it in my red revolution and I would give it out to the 1,500 readers and our for four and a half thousand followers on that.

B

Various Twitter accounts and Facebook accounts that everywhere, so something fun. Yeah and I'd really notice now say the the part of the power of if we tweet something out or if we send out a message or whatever really see how many people actually come back and react to that. Actually getting there a lot of feedback and that's really nice and so on. So yeah. We're anybody's welcome to a writer writing and something something to lessen.

A

Great, um you know why yeah hi, red revis is excellent. I like reading it and it saw my main medium feed and yeah check it out on.

A

There was an article that um that's been popping up a lot, which is a discussion that Harvard is having about I'm, making their tuition free, Harvard being a free tuition place. That's a really great thing for Harvard, um but one thing that they didn't kind of say is: how much does it cost to make a new seat at Harvard? In other words, you know when, when a student is admitted, what's the infrastructure costs to have a student arm to add a seat at Harvard? Okay, so in other words, you've got to build a physical plant.

A

You've got to make sure they've got a chair at the cafeteria. You have to make sure that they've got a dorm room. You have to make sure that they've got. um You know the athletic facilities and all those extra particular things Internet bandwidth. Well, the calculation is roughly it costs, 1 million dollars to add another seat at Harvard for an undergraduate um now I think it's wonderful.

A

Harvard is one of the wealthiest institutions, if not the wealthiest institution in the country, in terms of its endowment and with that endowment money in the basically you know their endowment is like a hedge fund um they're, making a lot of money on all kinds of different investments that they then pour back into um into the institution.

A

It is great that they are going to potentially make their enrollment free. They can do that with their large endowment. um Are they going to be expanding their enrollment of Harvard? Are they going to add? You know for Harvard to add another thousand people that would be a you know, an investment of potentially a billion dollars um just for a thousand and there's also.

A

There were big battles at Harvard when they increase their undergraduate enrollment just a little bit by a hundred or so which happened, I think a decade or so ago, and when you think about just adding a hundred students or adding a thousand students arm to an educational institution like that, when you have a billion people who want access to higher education and better education, I think it's great. That Harvard is potentially going to make it free for everybody, but that's a free for an incredibly small percentage of the population.

A

That's also free to an incredibly small percentage of the population who already are going to do probably quite well on in terms of their their social, economic and political opportunity and their social, political and economic capital. They have access to so everybody's going to be talking about how this is a great move by harbor, but let's realize that nothing is free that the money has to come from somewhere and what we should be concentrating on is stuff, like a plan is doing, which is, let's create the most open system possible.

A

Where there's a lot of information about the faculty. Where there's a lot of information about the courses you're going to be taking and there's a lot of choice for students, so they can find exactly what they want exactly what they need at the lowest cost um I.

A

If Harbor would like to write up there, no a check for a million dollars on. We can certainly um deploy that in a way that will get things hopping for a lot more than one undergraduate student. So that's kind of my take on the article. It was a nice piece, um but it was sort of like you know, they're already, it's not going to cost anything for her. It's going to cost Harvard some money, but it's not a really huge huge um push in terms of revolution in education.