Stanford Prez Grades U.S. Tech

One systemic problem that is pervasive is the 'you don't know what you don't know' (Douglas Hofstadter would like this one) problem. In this situation students get into an expensive discovery process (I'll start now and figure out my major as I go along). This use to be possible for University students. Not anymore! We need to use technology to hook-up high school students (especially in poor neighborhoods where the parents have never been to college) with mentors. Eventually Jeff Hawkins will figure out an algorithm for this, but in the meantime - Mark Zuckerberg, are you listening?

why does not Stanford increase its enrollment? They call for more immigrants and a larger population, yet they wont expand with th epopulation  size? why are they exempt from many of  the effects of population growth?

If unempoyment is so high then why do we need more immigrants to compete with us?

why does not Stanford increase its enrollment? They call for more immigrants and a larger population, yet they wont expand with th epopulation  size? why are they exempt from many of  the effects of population growth?

If unempoyment is so high then why do we need more immigrants to compete with us?

Good point. Why do you think they won't expand?

keeping the poulation of their leafy towns about the same, limiting enrollment suits them................and they have the power to impose change on others and remain relatively untouched.  Steve Sailer regularly addresses such matters

http://takimag.com/article/the_fence_around_the_ivory_tower_steve_sailer/print#axzz3R5HO6QqM

see Sailer's answers

http://takimag.com/article/the_fence_around_the_ivory_tower_steve_sailer/print#axzz3R5HO6QqM

You must have heard "It's a really good school, it's very hard to get into". Universities aren't rated by their effectiveness at motivating and training syudents, but by their difficulty of access. Passing Harvard's selection process is considered more important than anything learned there.

There is some justification for the idea, though. The major benefit of higher education appears to be that putting bright people together gets them to challenge each other to achieve. That benefit is lost if the student body is diluted with dummies. (It's rather like nuclear physics; the material has to be enriched to get a result.)

are you suggesting that Stanford, while aggressively advocatng for more immigration, lower wages for US engineers, and shorter careers, faces the risk of having to allow "dummies" into its leafy campus to accomodate the larger population of the US?  if the added population does not contain "Stanford-material" then why do they advocate adding them? is is simple race/population replacement?

US population has approx. doubled in 50 years, and the demand for well educated people has groen even faster. Stanford should expand its enrollment to meet the world's needs, and be consistent with the burdens that they advocate upon the rest of society. If Stanford and other elites schools claim that adding population will affect their quality of life then they should 'fess up to that, and allow other groups in socirty to use the same immigration-restrictionist arguments.

well CEO, how many points would Stanford drop if they doubled enrollment?  I think that istme for elites to think through the consequences of their actions upon others.

I did not incude in the report the following quote from Hennessy which I think is relevent to this discussion:

"We are contemplating a modest expansion of our [Stanford] campus that would ocur slowly over time. Our model is a residential high touch model that is more expensive. We will build additional dorms for that.

"MOOCs (massive online open classrooms) provide another way to extend the outreach. There are two consumer communities of moocs: professionals doing continuing education and then a whole community around the world for some of whom this may be the only way they get education beyond their local high school. Less than 5% of the people in sub-Saharan Africa get the opportunity to take even one college course."

how can a "modest expansion" be sufficient to meet the world's needs for Stanford educated people ? The US population has doubled in 50 years and , based upon immigration advocates at Stanford, it needs to increase more.

There are plenty of people in the world who would benefit from a Stanford education, and Stanford's endowment is enormous.

I simply ask US elites to bear the same burdens that thye advocate upon others especially wrt immigration and war.

Again, if Stanford wont bear the burden of immigration then they should be forced to explain why, and allow others to make the same arguments

A pretty good guess is its the same reason legal bar associations increase the dificulty of their annual bar exams and medical schools limit enrollments...managing the labor supply, in this case, academic services, so premioum prices can be maintained.

You don't think Stanford or any other elite school really cares about the shortage of technologists do you? Suggest they likely care considerably more about maintaining profit margins and high salaries for their elite personnel. My 2 cents. But people in capitalist economies more often do things for money reasons, to make more or save more. Could I be wrong?

if Stanford struggles to place its grads in meaninful, compensated employment ,  then why wont they admit to that and stop advocating for more supply of labor?