Re: [Phys-L] MOOC: Edx Offers Mechanics course by Prof.Walter Lewin

[Andre Adler <andre.adler@gmail.com>]

I didn't say it should be a business - only that is the reality.  I have come to rely on that paycheck I get every month. :-)

And I do worry that this will give countries where students can get a good university education without graduating with debt, an advantage over the US and hasten our decline.

At least the weather today in NYC is beautiful.

On Jun 20, 2013, at 1:34 PM, Bernard Cleyet <bernard@cleyet.org> wrote:

> On 2013, Jun 20, , at 10:13, Andre Adler <andre.adler@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > But Universities are businesses (at least in the US)…
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> That, of course IMAO, is the US's prob. anytime it's business it becomes not for the people, but from the people.  The pendulum may be swinging tho w/ the B corps. creation:
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> B corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_corporation
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> bc  
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> Some of the Physics Department faculty at NYU visit local schools to give talks.  Cost to the local area school? - Nothing; its free.
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> We also have students visit NYU Physics and Chemistry Departments labs - Cost to the local area school? - Nothing; its free (though they rent school buses, so I guess they pay for that.)
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> I think other Universities engage in similar outreach activities at no/minimal cost to the schools.
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> It isn't Neil deGrasse Tyson (though I have colleagues who are friends with him) but its something.
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> But Universities are businesses (at least in the US)…
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