In response to my post "Re: Trading Research for Teaching" [Hake
(2006)], Sam Held of the "Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students in
Lindau Germany" <http://www.orau.gov/lindau2006/default.htm> kindly
sent me an amusing cartoon by Ed Stein that appeared in the Rocky
Mountain News of 28 March 2006.
Stein's cartoon depicts physics Nobelist Carl Wieman sprinting from
the colossal football stadium of the University of Colorado to the
more academically oriented University of British Columbia [see e.g.,
Erickson (2006)].
Has Charles Miller's "Commission on the Future of Higher Education,
with it galaxy of higher education administrators [USDE (2005)],
considered the baleful preoccupation of many top university officials
with sports rather than academics?
Hake, R.R. 2006. "Re: Trading Research for Teaching," online at
<http://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0604&L=pod&F=&S=&P=3810>.
Post of 7 Apr 2006 09:20:38-0700 to Physhare, Phys-L, PhysLrnR, POD,
& STLHE-L. That post was motivated by David Epstein's (2006) report
in Inside Higher Ed.
Erickson, J. 2006. "Nobel winner blasts CU," Rocky Mountain News, 21
March, online at
<http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/education/article/0,1299,DRMN_957_4558192,00.html>,
or more compactly at <http://tinyurl.com/ldwao>. According to
Erickson, Wieman said: "If you want to have any sort of large-scale
education initiative, where you're really focusing on education, you
need people at the highest levels to put thought and attention into
it. If our Board of Regents spent half the time on discussions of how
to improve the education for students that they do on athletics, it
would be a very different university."
USDE. 2005. U.S. Dept. of Education, "Secretary Spellings Announces
New Commission on the Future of Higher Education," press release
online at <http://tinyurl.com/cxgfz>: