Suffolk University president James McCarthy will unveil a new vision for the school Tuesday that seeks to transform the 106-year-old university into a leader in tech-savvy, career-oriented learning while keeping tuition costs down.
McCarthy, who will be inaugurated as Suffolk’s ninth president Tuesday, also said he wants to build on the Beacon Hill school’s prime location to bolster its civic engagement with Boston.
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So a liberal arts institution is now a "jack-of-all-trades"? It bodes ill when a university envisions a brighter future as a factory with cheap robotic learning designed to create human widgets for the corporations that fund it. And Suffolk is not alone. This is the trend enveloping higher education as well as elementary and high school education. Privatization, corporatization, and mechanized dumb-down of our education system, justified by such nonsense as "competing with China" or "workforce building." (Or just plain skimping on money. Suffolk is worried about high tuition when it wraps its president in gold??)
"THE EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE IS REQUIRED AS THE SAFEGUARD OF ORDER AND LIBERTY." This may be graven in stone on the nation's first public library, but it is not graven into the minds of our political and educational leaders. "A republic," Ben Franklin described our freshly created government, "if you can keep it."
Shouldn't Suffolk University be required to build dormitories for their students as part of this expansion, rather than suggesting that the students live in the North End. We are inundated with Suffolk students, and their often bad behavior is ruining our wonderful neighborhood.