Is Steve Minz a provocateur, a truth-teller or both? “Learning communities speak to our highest aspirations: to make higher education less transactional and more developmental, supportive, integrative and holistic. But we mustn’t let our language obscure reality. Much as the Holy Roman Empire was (in Voltaire’s words) neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire, we mustn’t call a weed a rose.” Read more from Inside Higher Education.
PERSPECTIVES: Where Hype Meets Higher Education: “Learning Communities”
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