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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

The Good Ship Scholarship

Stick a bunch of moneyed kids from all over the world on a cruise ship. Do not have a curriculum. Assess their work in terms of how much more culturally sensitive they've become after a $20,000 semester on a luxury cruise.

Get the sort of faculty who enjoy the idea of not having to teach (they'll just be around... facilitating experiential whatever...) while getting paid to cruise to Tahiti. Put it all together, and you get...

The Scholar Ship!


So far, this new venture has produced,
in the Miami Herald, one of
the worst graphics UD's ever seen.















It's also produced some mighty fancy descriptive prose from one journalist, who calls it a "floating beacon of erudition."

And it might turn out to be all rigorous and serious and all. The organizers insist that "they plan to offer serious educational programs -- not a booze cruise."