Weekend August 14 2021
A letter to the editor in the weekend WSJ today advises of an interesting trend in Vermont. One does not have ot attend law school to take the bar exam.
One can study with a practicing attorney by 'reading the law.' Recall this is how Abe Lincoln studied for his Bar Exam. Then one can sit for the Bar Exam without the cost of law school. No doubt the existence of on line Bar Review material makes this much easier.
This is the same scenario that existed when I took the CPA exam in 1975. One needed 21 hours of college accounting but not the degree to take the CPA exam.
Recall that the entire undergrad accounting curriculum is now free on the internet via Khan Academy Edspira, Professor Farhat, and Accounting Coach.
The question was asked how to keep up with this, and so I have added a new category to my ProfessorElam weblog, Trends in Higher Education. One can click in the left column to access all those articles only.
John Naisbitt pioneered the idea of Megatrends. He reasoned that the size of newspapers does not change much. But the content does. He tracked his original ten megatrends by surveying newspaper content over time.
My interest in social mood driving social change is much the same. What is trending in terms of social behavior?
Professor Elam 
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