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Record W2055512427 · doi:10.2202/1940-1639.1455

Holding on to Higher Education's Highest Calling in Hard Times

2009· article· en· W2055512427 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Diana Chapman Walsh

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of College and Character · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicUniversity Challenges and Reforms
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRecessionExperiential learningQuarter (Canadian coin)Vulnerability (computing)Higher educationFace (sociological concept)Public relationsGreat recessionGlobal recessionPolitical sciencePedagogySociologyPsychologySocial scienceLawEconomicsHistory

Abstract

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The unanticipated and unwelcome detour precipitated by the economic recession comes at a time of vulnerability for American higher education. Questions of educational purpose have been raised with increasing urgency over the last quarter century, and they have catalyzed promising new thinking and new experimentation. Recent years have seen encouraging progress in shaping an agenda for undergraduate liberal education that will more effectively produce graduates who are prepared to grapple, imaginatively and responsibly, with complex challenges they will face throughout their lives. Yet progress in disseminating these ideas has been painfully slow. We can hope that the current economic crisis may be the impetus institutions of higher learning have needed to become experiential learning organizations.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.009
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.072
Threshold uncertainty score0.243

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.009
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0210.005
Scholarly communication0.0140.004
Open science0.0010.008
Research integrity0.0040.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0720.016

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.024
GPT teacher head0.294
Teacher spread0.270 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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