Summary Of The College Crossroads By Kwame Anthony Appiah

College is place where people want to go and learn or and make a career of what they’re studying for. “The College Crossroads” is an article by Kwame Anthony Appiah talks about “how college was a place where people went to learn about things that were easy to answer but now that higher education has grown, it not so easy to say what college is like and really what it is for.” There are two ideas that he seems to be talked about in the article, which are Utility U and Utopia U. These two main ideas focuses on two different ways of looking at what a college is really like and what it is for. Utility U tends to focus on how college can be useful for its graduates and also to its employers. While Utopia U. tends to focus on what John Stuart Mill calls “experiments in living” which aims to get
it focuses on the value of college meaning the dollar amount that it cost to go to college. College from year to year tends to get expensive and students start to wonder if it is going to be a good investment for them in the future. One obvious way to better your value proposition is for the government to cut the prices on universities and colleges so people wouldn’t have to wonder if college is a good investment or not. Furthermore supporting the established faculties known as Tenure and Adjunt. With these two different types faculties the students want to get as much from their investment as possible so it is best that schools hire Tenure Faculty. With Tenure faculty they are not so easy to fire, with these types of professors they tend to peruse intellectual projects the give them the freedom for them to create projects that interest them making them the leading researchers of the world. On the other hand with adjunct faculty they are less expensive to pay, and they have no benefits at all which means they only meet the schools system needs. Colleges prefer to get Adjunt faculty because they are more convening then Tenure because of the difference in