In my experience, EAs tend to be pretty dissatisfied with the higher education system, but I interpreted the muted/mixed response to my post on the topic as a sign that my experience might have been biased, or that despite the dissatisfaction, there wasn’t any real hunger for change. Or maybe a sense that change was too intractable.
Though I might also have done a poor job at making the case.
My speculative, cynical, maybe unfair take is that most senior EAs are so enmeshed in the higher education system, and sunk so much time succeeding in it, that they’re incentivized against doing anything too disruptive that might jeopardize their standing within current institutions. And why change how undergrad education is done if you’ve already gone through it?
In my experience, EAs tend to be pretty dissatisfied with the higher education system, but I interpreted the muted/mixed response to my post on the topic as a sign that my experience might have been biased, or that despite the dissatisfaction, there wasn’t any real hunger for change. Or maybe a sense that change was too intractable.
Though I might also have done a poor job at making the case.
My speculative, cynical, maybe unfair take is that most senior EAs are so enmeshed in the higher education system, and sunk so much time succeeding in it, that they’re incentivized against doing anything too disruptive that might jeopardize their standing within current institutions. And why change how undergrad education is done if you’ve already gone through it?