By Harold M. Hastings. We in higher education must act on our collective responsibility to support America's public universities, writes Harold M. Hastings. Read more...
24 janvier 2017
Lessons From the Tragedy of the Commons
Coming in 2017
By Lisa M. Rudgers and Julie A. Peterson. Colleges and universities should prepare for seven key trends in the new year, Lisa M. Rudgers and Julie A. Peterson advise. Read more...
Colleges Should Abandon Early Admissions
By Harold O. Levy. The disadvantage they confer on low-income students is a fatal flaw, argues Harold O. Levy. Read more...
Swimming Against the Current
By Samuel J. Abrams. Given the well-known ideological imbalance of professors on our nation’s college and university campuses, quite a bit has been written about how conservative faculty members are a “beleaguered minority,” the rare “campus unicorns” and even “a minority [which] is being systematically repressed in America’s elite institutions.” Read more...
Compassion Is No Substitute for Competence
By Ted Gup. Higher education institutions are woefully unprepared to handle the complexity of rape cases, argues Ted Gup. Read more...
Three Questions for Higher Education
By Dan Greenstein. We need to engage in a serious dialogue about our role in exacerbating the opportunity gap and our obligation to close it, argues Dan Greenstein. Read more...
The Makings of a President?
By Scott McLemee. “As nearly all scholars recognize,” we read in an article published in Presidential Studies Quarterly in 1983, “there is no apprenticeship or training an individual may obtain in preparation for the presidency. There is no convenient book or guide which provides a detailed step-by-step analysis of the requirements and demands of the office.” Read more...
U.S. Politics and International Education
By Bradley A. Feuling. Long-term data provide clear evidence that a Republican-led administration will play a significant -- and perhaps somewhat surprising -- role in influencing foreign student enrollments and study abroad, writes Bradley A. Feuling. Read more...
Early FAFSA: Fast, but Will it Go Far?
By Kent Barnds. A little over a year ago, our enrollment team at Augustana College met in retreat to discuss the anticipated impact of prior-prior year submission of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or early FAFSA, as it is called now. Read more...
Confessions of a Reformed Dataphobe
By Danielle Caldwell. Once a skeptic of “big data,” Danielle Caldwell is now convinced of its ability to empower institutions to match students to the right programs and provide individualized support through graduation. Read more...
