Michael M. Crow > Quotes

“Two-year graduation rates for students enrolled in community colleges do not exceed 13 percent, according to Robert J. Gordon, a figure that increases to 28 percent after four years.”
― Michael M. Crow, Designing the New American University

“The university is the most significant creation of the second millennium,”
― Michael M. Crow, Designing the New American University

“an “education that reduces everything to use-value, that sees students only as production units, and that values only work that can be commoditized and only relationships that can be monetized, is profoundly dehumanizing.”
― Michael M. Crow, Designing the New American University

“Despite claims to be distinctive, institutions seek the “security of isomorphism,” which promises conformity and “following standard approaches and pursuing similar goals in roughly the same manner.”
― Michael M. Crow, Designing the New American University

“Design is a central concept for the New American University,”
― Michael M. Crow, Designing the New American University

“In 1870, one out of every sixty men between eighteen and twenty-one years old was a college student; by 1900, one out of every twenty-five was in college.… In 1940, it was one out of every 6.5.… Today, half of all Americans have some experience of college; 25 percent earn college degrees (associate’s or bachelor’s).”
― Michael M. Crow, Designing the New American University

“Higher education represents our best hope for the advancement of both individuals and the collective.”
― Michael M. Crow, Designing the New American University

“Pragmatism has been termed our nation’s most significant contribution to philosophy,”
― Michael M. Crow, Designing the New American University

“the notion that to enhance workforce development, legislators must strip away academic programs deemed not immediately applicable reflects a simplistic view of the role of higher education in the economy.”
― Michael M. Crow, Designing the New American University