Wired Campus of the Chronicle of Higher Education has an entry today on the Youtube video. I am quoting from that entry here. This is not the entire entry.
"Have you heard that higher education is a scam? That accusation is racing around YouTube these days, in a video that has been viewed more than two million times.
The hourlong video, College Conspiracy, was produced by a group called the National Inflation Association.
Most college officials would undoubtedly dispute those charges, and question some of the facts rattled off in the video. But the video’s popularity highlights a growing frustration among members of the public with the soaring costs of education at a time of rising unemployment.
The producers of College Conspiracy did not return calls and e-mail messages requesting comment. One professor who appears in the film, Karl Klein, an associate professor of computer studies at Onondaga Community College, said he was not aware of how the interview would be used when he talked to a member of the National Inflation Association.
I would have called it something like, ‘Is There a College Bubble?’” he said. “But I think there are some things in that video that we need to think about and talk about, and I’m not sure there is a real good conversation taking place in higher education about cost.”
Source: "Questions About Higher Education's Value go Viral on Youtube" by Jeff Young
Wired Campus, Chronicle of Higher Education
September 15, 2011
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