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5 juillet 2014

Troubled Italian University Loses U.S. Degree-Granting Authority

The New Hampshire Higher Education Commission voted unanimously on Monday to allow the degree-granting authority of a troubled for-profit Italian institution to expire at the end of the day. St. John International University had long been plagued by low enrollments and legal claims of unpaid wages filed by former employees, raising hard questions about the oversight role of the New Hampshire commission, and, more broadly, the practice of cross-border accreditation or authorization. Read more...

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5 juillet 2014

Hiring Trends in Higher Education: A Compendium of Articles

"Hiring Trends in Higher Education" is a compilation of articles and essays on the challenges and strategies of colleges in hiring the best talent, for faculty and administrator positions. Download the news and opinion articles -- collected in a print-on-demand booklet -- here.
This booklet is part of a series of such compilations that Inside Higher Ed is publishing on a range of topics. Read more...

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5 juillet 2014

Extended Negotiations Over Corinthian's Phasing-Out

The U.S. Department of Education failed to reach an agreement with Corinthian Colleges on how to sell or close its 107 campuses, the department said Wednesday. The two sides last month agreed to an initial plan, through which the feds released held financial aid payments to the cash-starved for-profit chain. Announcements of that deal said negotiators would finalize the phasing-out arrangements for Corinthian by July 1. The department said yesterday that the plan remained due by that date. Read more...

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5 juillet 2014

Ed Dept. Official: Ratings on Track for Fall Release

The senior Department of Education official overseeing the development of the Obama administration’s college ratings system confirmed on Wednesday that the department was on track to publish a draft proposal by this fall. Read more...

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5 juillet 2014

Dissertation Advisers and Their Motives

By Heather Dubrow. The prominence of Marxist thinkers in many academic fields ensures that graduate students study commodification; the prevalence of self-serving pedagogical practices ensures that those students too often become commodities themselves. You’ve read the book, now act, or be acted on, in the movie. Read more...

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5 juillet 2014

Professor as Personal Trainer

By Alex Golub. Nine years ago I wrote a column for Inside Higher Ed entitled “The Professor as Personal Trainer.”Back then I was A.B.D., adjuncting, and had basically never exercised in my life. Today, I’m a middle-aged, tenured professor and I’ve hired a personal trainer to try to get in shape. Now that I actually am a professor, and really do work with a personal trainer, how does my original piece hold up. Read more...

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5 juillet 2014

A Degree of Fraud

By Scott McLemee. It’s surprising how many house pets hold advanced degrees. Last year, a dog received his M.B.A. from the American University of London, a non-accredited distance-learning institution. It feels as if I should add “not to be confused with the American University in London,” but getting people to confuse them seems like a pretty basic feature of the whole AUOL marketing strategy. Read more...

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5 juillet 2014

Are Universities Gouging Online Students?

By Randy Best. Several hundred incoming Georgia Tech students made history this spring as the first cohort in the institution’s online master’s program in computer science. While today it is hardly noteworthy that a prestigious university like Georgia Tech is offering a graduate degree online, the university’s decision to price it more than 80 percent less than the on-campus option is truly groundbreaking. At $6,600, the online program is one-sixth the cost of the on-campus one, a fact that higher education leaders should be examining closely. Read more...

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5 juillet 2014

Public to Private MBA at UCLA

By Ry Rivard. A small chunk of the University of California is set to break slightly away tomorrow and become “self-supporting,” as the state system begins a closely watched experiment that could be repeated. Following years of controversy, most of the University of California at Los Angeles’s Anderson School of Management will be giving up state funding in hopes of living off donations and likely higher tuitions. Read more...

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5 juillet 2014

Hedging Bets

By Elizabeth Redden. A new report argues that Western universities should take a more strategic approach to using transnational, or cross-border, higher education as a way to hedge against anticipated declines in international students that may result from the continuing development of higher education capacity in Asia. Read more...

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