{"id":834,"date":"2015-10-30T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/?p=834"},"modified":"2015-10-29T16:43:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T20:43:25","slug":"photo-friday-memories-of-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/2015\/10\/30\/photo-friday-memories-of-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Friday: Memories of Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The cake at Ernest L. Boyer’s welcome party as the new United States Commissioner of Education.- BCA<\/p><\/div>\n

In 1988 Boyer wrote an article for the London Times Higher Education Supplement column titled, \u201cDoubts Raised on Division of Three-Tier Cake<\/a>.\u201d When coming up with this title, it\u2019s possible that Boyer thought back to his welcome party as the new United States Commissioner of Education, during which he was presented with a big tiered cake. This cake is the featured picture of today\u2019s post.<\/p>\n

In the London Times article, Boyer describes the three-tiered system of the California higher education system and how it was meant to operate. Starting with the third tier and ending with the first, he states that ideally:<\/p>\n

The University of California, with its nine separate institutions, would be highly selective, and carry the primary responsibility for doctorate education and research. The 19 campuses of the state university system would be less selective. They would offer masters but no doctorate degrees and support more limited research. The 106 community colleges would be the point of entry for most students but provide transfer to senior institutions. Thus California designed a system that embraced elitism and openness, selectivity and mobility as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, after 25 years of this system, reality overtook the design. Instead of focusing on the idea of transferring to higher tiers in the education system, community colleges began to focus more on serving adults, Latino\/a, and black students who often were unwilling to transfer. Among state universities, professors \u201cworried that without students in Ph.D. programs they could not adequately pursue advanced scholarship.\u201d This worry stemmed from the fact that the University of California emphasized research to the point that the commitment to undergraduate education was questioned. Yet, Boyer also notes that the commission hired by the state of California to assess the system, believed that these problems would be compounded when Latino\/as and blacks made up the majority of students in community colleges. Thus, it became necessary to take action.<\/p>\n

The commission recommended that the interrelationship of the institutions be reaffirmed in order to effectively serve the more disadvantaged students by informing them of the transfer options the system allowed for. Second, it called for a shift in the faculty reward system, professors would be given credit for working with colleagues in public schools as opposed to relying on research for promotions. Third, the commission emphasized the need to give \u201cappropriate priority\u201d to teaching as well as curriculum created by both faculty and governing boards. Last, the University of California remained the doctorate granting sector. However, joint doctoral programs between the State University and the University of California were proposed. Therefore, \u201cCalifornia\u2019s revised master plan has thoughtfully established new priorities for American higher education.\u201d<\/p>\n

While today\u2019s featured photo does not directly relate to the article described, the cake is nevertheless an important representation of Boyer\u2019s analysis of California\u2019s higher education system in the 1980s. If the layers of a tiered cake are separated, the quality and aesthetic impact of the cake is diminished. In the same way, Boyer affirmed the California commission\u2019s decisions to strengthen the connectivity between the tiers of California higher education.<\/p>\n

To read the rest of Boyer’s article, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 1988 Boyer wrote an article for the London Times Higher Education Supplement column titled, \u201cDoubts Raised on Division of Three-Tier Cake.\u201d When coming up with this title, it\u2019s possible that Boyer thought back to his welcome party as the new United States Commissioner of Education, during which he was presented with a big tiered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5360],"tags":[1307,5423,5393],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-photo-friday","tag-higher-education","tag-london-times-higher-education-supplement-column","tag-u-s-commissioner-of-education","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}