http://alt-tag.com/blog/archives/2008/03/two-excellent-education-articles/ Thoughts on everything from education and politics to internet usability, and programming. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:08:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://alt-tag.com/blog/archives/2008/03/two-excellent-education-articles/comment-page-1/#comment-11337 Joe Scoresby Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:17:56 +0000 http://alt-tag.com/blog/archives/2008/03/two-excellent-education-articles/#comment-11337 One of the issues that I am being exposed to (accidentally) at George Mason University is the duty imposed on a state college to be a college for that state's residents. GMU is caught between trying to attract people from outside the state (and country) to improve its rankings and prestige and enrolling students who want to attend a Washington DC-area in-state university. Matters get more complicated when the school is, at the same time, trying to throw off its image as a commuter school, while units try to expand post-graduate executive (read "commuter") education. One of the issues that I am being exposed to (accidentally) at George Mason University is the duty imposed on a state college to be a college for that state’s residents.
GMU is caught between trying to attract people from outside the state (and country) to improve its rankings and prestige and enrolling students who want to attend a Washington DC-area in-state university.
Matters get more complicated when the school is, at the same time, trying to throw off its image as a commuter school, while units try to expand post-graduate executive (read “commuter”) education.

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