Higher education gets news coverage in both mass and social media, and much, I’m sure, is true. Technology is changing it at warp speed, and the old descriptions we used to toss about no longer fit.We joked that colleges had buildings where “ivy is creeping around on the outside and teachers are creeping around on the inside.”Other bromides come to mind, but none seem to fit well in the everchanging framework of what higher education is all about.Greek philosophers considered the topic centuries ago, asking, “Whom, then, shall we call educated?”Then, they proceeded to answer their own questions, claiming that ...