Hank: US higher education will survive its 2020 crisis by reckoning with its out-of-control budgets (2020)
prediction · status: unresolved · last event: repeated (2021-03-05) · owner: Hank
In July 2020 Hank said US higher education would survive its crisis by coming to terms with having let its budgets get out of control while competing like businesses for customers.
Told alongside: Hank: a change in how US higher education works will have to happen quite quickly (2020)
About: higher education
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-07-31 | predicted | Hank has hope: he thinks higher education will survive by accepting that it has done tremendous good while letting budgets balloon, competing like businesses for customers instead of educating students. (hedged) | Your Brain Gets Smart, but Your Head Gets Dumb 00:02:23 |
| 2021-03-05 | repeated | Disastrous as the year has been for education, Hank says it feels a bit like a wake-up call that its cost need not rise dramatically every year; there might be other ways. (hedged) | How Much Hope is OK? 00:00:35 |
What is said about it
2 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2020-07-31 · Your Brain Gets Smart, but Your Head Gets Dumb — Hank says Complexly thinks about this every day: its goal is free educational materials that make teaching cheaper and easier, plus bigger ideas like its partnership with Arizona State University. — 00:03:12
- 2020-07-31 · Your Brain Gets Smart, but Your Head Gets Dumb — Hank says we are at the very beginning of a change in how higher education works, which must be done thoughtfully and carefully though it has to happen quickly; that is why he is worried. — 00:03:12