The Discourse On The Need For Universities

In the documentary, “Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk,” explains how going to college is part of the American dream and is a rite of passage. Nowadays, college education is a necessity to survive and reach to middle class. Unfortunately, in this documentary it is mention how teachers concern more on conducting research to increase their pay rather providing quality teaching for the students, which is clearly unfair. The main issue that higher education consist of is the cost of it. In the first article, it stresses how college tuition’s prices have soared sky-rocket over time and makes it very difficult for people to afford this privilege. In the second article, it is about how which college one attends to makes a difference in

According to “Why We Read: The University, the Humanities, and the Province of Literature," Richter illustrates why literature should be studied in the first place. David Richter is an English professor who was very dedicated to his job. In this article, he had five section: English Literature as an Object of Study, The Era of Grand Theory and Cultural Wars, Reading Liberation; Teaching as a Propaganda, The Function of English at the Present Time and After the Culture Wars: The Problem of Disciplinary. The founder of English Adam Smith was not English at all but a Scottish polymath who taught English lectures in 1748 and 1751. The author goes on to explain all the knowledge about how literature became so important. He used those reference

Today most of new ideas in electronics flow through leading universities and their faulty. Exploratory research has a close connection with universities. Intel had a mechanism for providing grants to universities. But many

Whilst raising money for African charities at school I developed an interest in global inequality and alternative policies that can help low-income nations escape the poverty trap. Reading ’23 Things’ by Ha-Joon Chang, I was intrigued by his view on blaming free-market policies like SAPs that exposed sub-Saharan Africa to international competition, slowing economic growth. Hence, this extended my research to the other side of the

Justin Cox, the author of the editorial, believes that the belief that every child in America should go to college is actually hindering the lives of kids who do go to college. Students fresh out of college "are jobless and deep in debt with student loans." Cox also believes that this issue is interrelated with our extreme debt to China. Because American society views having a college degree as the "norm," jobs that do not need a higher education, such as construction or factory jobs, are being shipped overseas because we do not have enough people that either want or are able to do the jobs. And although there are negative stereotypes associated with trade workers, they do not have to deal with the debt that most college graduates are burdened with and some of them can even earn more money than some college graduates. Cox thinks that we should be giving more importance

In today’s society, the cost of attending college is so high that many students are unable to afford to. Consequently, fewer students from lower-income families attend college compared to those from higher-income families, despite the fact that the federal government supplies financial aid to those that are eligible. As a result of the rise in tuition, many young students no longer can afford college. College education should be free for those living below the poverty line so that they have access to attend college and to lift financial burdens from their families.

Matthews, D., & Lumina Foundation for, E. (2012). A Stronger Nation through Higher Education: How and Why Americans Must Achieve a Big Goal for College Attainment. A Special Report from Lumina Foundation. Lumina Foundation For Education,

In “Inventing the University,” David Bartholomae discusses how students are having to conform to their university’s vernacular to sound more educated than they actually are (1). Bartholomae enforces this thesis decisively through personal experience as through his doctoral studies and his current professorship at the University of Pittsburgh; when students have to become “a member of the academy [to] an historian [to either] an anthropologist or an economist” (2). The only way for them to be successful in those types of classes is through describing concepts or terms that their professors would use. A major may not even require the usage of an anthropologists’ skillset or the use of knowing specific dates when Christopher Columbus discovered

United Nations Academic Impact at Five: The Next Generation of Global Citizens (New York November 10th, 2015)

There are multiple constraints that pose a significant obstruction to effective innovation but the constraints focused on for this paper are budgetary, ideological & systematic and political & organizational. Budgetary constraints were significant, especially after World War I (WWI). WWI all but completely financially depleted the major powers that participated in this occupation, namely Germany, Britain and France. Regarding budget, money was tight and there were priorities and for some countries the priority was not funding the military for innovation in the development of new armaments and new ways of killing or dealing a decisive blow to the enemy. Basically, the governments of Britain and France were both stating that they were not willing to fund future wars. On the other hand the government of Germany was of a different mindset. Although there were similar funding issues, their government was motivated by the thought of not coming close to winning the war but actually winning. Therefore, Germany’s priority was innovation and focus on their war power in order to win. In essence, given Germany’s priorities, the Nazis had unlimited funding as a primary result of the support they received allowing them to implement present and future programs.

These four courses provided me with insights into the process of technological improvement and implementation that had previously either not crossed my mind or I had disregarded as unimportant, especially in regards to the sustainable methods of doing so. The focus that was placed on not only innovative processes but also sustainable invention and the implementation of them in the developing world caused me to reexamine and update my thoughts on the importance of the environment and on those less fortunate than myself. What I learned in my pathway has perfectly complemented what I am learning in my economic development class this quarter and allowed me to offer insight into how innovation can be used to fuel growth and development in these often impoverished areas. In the class we have discussed in great lengths the impact that the implementation of improved processes can have on a developing economy, a theme that is reflected in this pathway. In the broader sense, this pathway has provided me with a new viewpoint of the world around me. I now see just how vital new products and processes have been to the advancement of our standard of living. I now plan on attempting to produce some innovative products in my personal future, with the pool of knowledge created in these pathway courses to draw upon for guidance. I now feel confident in my

Seattle represents a unique city that played an impressive center for distinctive innovation in international growth (Impactful Innovation, n.d.). According to Impactful Innovation (n.d.), Washington state embraces many institutions that are developing the future of technology. Also, Washington fosters noticeable companies in international health (Impactful Innovation, n.d.). Moreover, Washington contributes to being engaged with a variable society of for-profits, nonprofits, academic and philanthropic groups which attempted to create a reliable change the international growth through inventive concepts and advanced technologies (Impactful Innovation, n.d.). According Impactful Innovation (n.d.),” Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) describes the space in which technological innovation complements and enhances global development to bridge the digital divide, reduce poverty and improve livelihoods throughout the developing

In Africa there has also been a rapid growth in Science and Technology but despite this growth, African cultures have kept their personhood. Ubuntu is a system of personhood and therefore in Africa, technology does not define personhood but it is defined through others (Du Toit, 2005).

While reverse innovation requires a person to think broader and more differently (Simula, Hossain, and Halme 1567), cost, good-enough, and frugal innovations are dependent on the quantity of resources (Zeschky, Winterhalter, and Gassmann 20). These three resource-dependent innovations are different based on their varying costs and amounts of engineering required to create or adapt the products (Zeschky, Winterhalter, and Gassmann 21). First, cost innovations are items that achieve the same, or similar, function as Western products for lower prices; the reduced price tag is possible as a result of simultaneously utilizing better sourced, but lower priced, local resources (Zeschky, Winterhalter, and

 To find out the role of human capital in economic development in east African countries.