{"id":184,"date":"2005-09-22T08:59:08","date_gmt":"2005-09-22T16:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2005\/09\/kentucky-ccs-outsource-grading\/"},"modified":"2005-09-22T08:59:08","modified_gmt":"2005-09-22T16:59:08","slug":"kentucky-ccs-outsource-grading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2005\/09\/kentucky-ccs-outsource-grading\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky CCs outsource grading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2005\/09\/22\/outsource\">Community colleges outsource grading<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many colleges these days outsource their bookstores or cafeterias or dormitories, based on the idea that private businesses may be able to provide better service at lower prices. Not everyone agrees with that idea, to be sure, but outsourcing of non-academic functions has become common.<\/p>\n<p>But what about academic functions?<\/p>\n<p>In a move that may take outsourcing past traditional levels, Kentucky\u2019s community colleges this fall have started a pilot project in which an outside company is reading and providing evaluations of student essays in freshman composition courses. The program is small to date \u2014 only 48 students are having their papers assessed in this way \u2014 but Kentucky officials are enthusiastic about the potential for expanding the effort. And the company \u2014 Smarthinking \u2014 sees this as a service it would like to offer other colleges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: Community colleges outsource grading Many colleges these days outsource their bookstores or cafeterias or dormitories, based on the idea that private businesses may be able to provide better service at lower prices. Not everyone agrees with that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2005\/09\/kentucky-ccs-outsource-grading\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporate-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}