By Margaret Andrews. I spoke at the GMAC Asia Pacific Conference in Manila earlier this month about how business schools can stand out from the crowd. With nearly 17,000 schools worldwide offering business degrees, it’s more important than ever for each school to articulate to prospective students what’s unique and valuable about that school – and then to communicate it in such a way that the school’s personality, or “secret sauce,” comes through. Read more...
18 novembre 2015
Six Words
Is the Whole Just a Collection of Parts?
By Liz Reisberg. There seems to be a growing trend to deconstruct the traditional university degree in favor of an amalgam of separate pieces. This trend further complicates the current debate about what a university degree should represent. Read more...
Rankings, Mergers, Development
By Daniel Kontowski and Philip G. Altbach. The EU has almost 4,000 higher education institutions, 434 of them are now in Poland. With only 7% of EU population, we host 11% of the higher education institutions. There are fourteen types of HEIs; they report to different ministries; and only about a 100 are public. And yet, the quantity doesn’t translate into ranking-based quality. Read more...
Our Republic Will Withstand College Students Protesting
By John Warner. When I gave three cheers for student protests on Monday, it was because, in my experience, students are far too deferential to institutional authority, often absorbing an ethos that removes any sense of personal agency or freedom, the practicing of which I believe to be central to the undergraduate experience. Read more...
Toward a More Inclusive Definition of Faculty Scholarship
By Thomas Carey. A recent post in Matt Reed’s Confessions of a Community College Dean column raised the question of “how research informs teaching and whether it factors in at the community college level”. I think this question is best framed in a slightly more general way: “how can our teaching activity and our scholarly activity complement each other to be mutually beneficial at a teaching-intensive institution”. This is of importance at any teaching-intensive institution, particularly one which integrates foundational, vocational and professional programs along with more traditional academic pathways. Read more...Tackling a Super Wicked Problem
By Steven Mintz. Higher education faces a number of wicked problems that are exceeding difficult to solve, precisely because any solutions are enormously expensive, exceptionally complex, and extremely divisive, and require implementation at scale. Read more...The Future of The Future of Higher Education
By Dan Butin. Another commission on the future of higher education has just been formed. I thus sometimes wonder whether we would all be better off and save everyone a lot of time and money and headaches if we instead embraced what should be the standard-issue for any academic administrator in this age of disruption: the Magic 8-Ball. Read more...The Future of The Future of Higher Education
Then What?
By Laura Tropp. There are so many stories in the news about how helicopter parenting hurts kids. Comics make fun of it. Stories constantly warn about the dangers of it. It may cause a “psychological blowback” in College. Read more...
Math Geek Mom: Cultural References
By Rosemarie Emanuele. Economists talk about buying things that we “need and want.” However, in thinking about this, the distinction between needs and wants is often not made, although it was one that I considered when I decided not to buy a television while in graduate school, due to my limited income. Read more...
Math Geek Mom: Random Encounters
By Rosemarie Emanuele. Ever an economist, trying to get the most from a limited budget, the “extreme couponer” in me came out recently when I went to a local store with a coupon promising me quite a bit of a discount if I spent a specified amount at that store. Read more...
