Transformation From Within
Inside Higher Ed
“There is indeed a transformation coming in American higher education,” writes Louis Soares, a special policy adviser to the council's president, Molly Corbett Broad. “It is not driven by technology or MOOCs, though these tools abet the change. It will ...
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New Sheriff in Town
Inside Higher Ed
It's common for new presidents on campus to announce how impressed they are with the institution and its people, their excitement about learning more from students, faculty and alumni. Substantive ideas? They might be proposed in an inaugural – months ...
Purdue president Mitch Daniels deplores state of higher educationDaily Caller
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A British Intellectual Pioneers a New Model for College
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
In his role as founder of the New College of the Humanities, Britain's newest and most controversial institution of higher education, A.C. Grayling could have chosen among several titles. The senior academic officer at most English higher-education ...
State Spending on Higher Education Rebounds in Most States After Years of ...
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Over all, states spent just 0.4 percent less on higher education in the fiscal year that began last July 1, compared with the previous year, according to the survey, which was compiled by researchers at Illinois State University and the State Higher ...
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State senator focuses on higher education
WANE
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - State Senator Jim Banks came on First News Sunday to talk about several bills he's authored aimed at keeping college costs down. He said he's taking an aggressive approach because he believes there's a crisis with higher ...
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Higher-Education Reform: a Legacy for Obama?
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Higher education had no place in the 2012 presidential election. Mitt Romney's agenda consisted of reinstating enormous public subsidies for private-sector student lenders and praising a for-profit college in Florida that charges $20,000 a year for a ...
In Defense of the Credit Hour
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Granting agencies, the federal government, accrediting bodies, and many higher-education critics believe that the path to educational reform, from MOOCs to life-experience credits, should begin with reimagining the credit hour. In December the Carnegie ...
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''I Will Ruin Him''
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
The fact that I had written a novel several years earlier, The Horned Man, in which a college instructor believes he is being framed for a series of sex crimes, gave the situation a piquancy that didn't escape me, although I was in no condition to ...
Editorial: College Bound — the civil right of educational opportunity
The Seattle Times
EDUCATION is as much a civil-rights battleground today as it was in 1964 when Martin Luther King Jr. called it the “road to equality and citizenship.” The fight now is to improve academic outcomes for low-income kids of color. Evidence that we're not ...
Low-income college-aid program a big successYakima Herald-Republic (press release)
A+ program earns its high marksSpringfield News-Leader
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As Yudof Steps Down, Major Challenges Lie Ahead for the U. of California System
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
A veteran higher-education leader who came to California after heading up university systems in Minnesota and Texas, Mr. Yudof took office in June 2008. Months later the financial crisis hit, kicking off an era marked at UC by mandatory furloughs for ...
Brown seeks to reshape California's community collegesLos Angeles Times
California Gov. Spurs Online Education ActionHispanicBusiness.com
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