Archive for July 2016

Clock Speed in Academia

Posted on July 7, 2016, 3:44 pm, by Bill Rouse, under Challenges, Education.

An industry executive that chaired an advisory board at a major research university once commented to me that academia’s unit of time is the semester.  “When a faculty member says he will get back to me right away, he means by the end of the semester.” We measure performance of computers in cycles per second, […]

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Student Debt and Jobs

Posted on July 2, 2016, 4:56 pm, by Bill Rouse, under Challenges, Education.

The August 2016 issue of Consumer Reports summarizes a much longer report from revealnews.org on student debt.  Their headline is 42 million people owe $1.3 trillion.  Their survey found that “45% of the people with student loan debt said that college was not worth the cost.  Of those who said college wasn’t worth the money, […]

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