Category Archives: Education

How Not to Cut a Public University Budget

The Portland (Maine) Press-Herald’s November 6 article about the probable loss of NASA research grants that support the work of four students is heart-breaking.  If this seems excessive, consider what that tells us about the dismal unraveling of USM under its troubled leadership of the past few years. As one who spent much of her […]

November 24, 2014 – 11:00 am | By Sylvia Kraemer | Posted in Colleges and Universities, Education | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Why The Liberal Arts?

  It’s difficult to hear a discussion of education in the United States without being reminded of the urgency of increasing students’ proficiency in ‘STEM’ (science, technology, engineering and math) disciplines.  This, we learn, is necessary to secure their competitiveness in a technology-driven job market.  What is too rarely pointed out is that a primary […]

January 23, 2014 – 10:02 am | By Sylvia Kraemer | Posted in Art and Culture, Colleges and Universities, Education, History of Ideas, Uncategorized | Comments (1)