New York Times publishes letter by Anouar Majid on online education

The New York Times on July 26, 2012 published a letter by Anouar Majid, Ph.D., associate provost for global initiatives and director of the Center for Global Humanities. The letter was a response to a July 20th column titled “The Trouble With Online Education” by Mark Edmundson.

Majid writes: "Mark Edmundson is right to point out the pedagogical limitations of online education, particularly in the case of undergraduate students. Equally troubling, however, is the threat that elite, resource-rich consortiums pose to the hundreds of small, private colleges across the land." Read the letter.

Majid is the author of five critically acclaimed books on Islam and the West, including Islam and America: Building a Future without Prejudice, and a novel, Si Yussef, which has been the focus of much scholarly and critical interest. This is Majid's sixth letter on higher education that the Times has published since 1998.

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