What Is College For?
The poor results from America’s institutions of higher education have been a big topic among the architects who design for them. A lot of the campus fads—for things like group study—have worked their way into a generation of college buildings, only to be discredited. This Op Ed points to a number of structural problems in education today, but it should have mentioned that trends in the built environment of the campus needs as much reevaluation as the attitudes within.
