This was my first visit to the MOA, and I’m trying to make sense of the place. Read more...
Higher Ed Lessons From the Mall of America?
This was my first visit to the MOA, and I’m trying to make sense of the place. Read more...
By Dante Salto. National traditions have played a major role when it comes to favoring public or private sector higher education expansion. For example, Argentina reached “universal” thresholds mainly through public sector enrollment, Chile (since the 1980s) mainly through the private sector. Read more...
By Oronte. In the 1950s and ‘60s, President Delyte Morris grew Southern Illinois University-Carbondale from a normal school with 3,000 students to a university with 25,000. Under his ambitious leadership SIU developed schools of agriculture, engineering, law, and medicine; a second campus with 10,000 students was created a hundred miles away. Read more...
By Oronte. At the end of 2006 I was honored to become the first IHE blogger and am now one of more than 20 other writers at IHE’s Blog U. The professionalism, generosity, and kindness of the IHE editors cannot be overstated. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. One of my students expressed a newly found fear after reading about the scope of the U.S. government’s surveillance. Another expressed hopelessness at ever being able to cabin its powers. Read more...
By John Warner. Where power sits in Wisconsin is also clear, and it isn’t with faculty at their 17 member institutions. Read more...
By Michael A. Olivas. The U.S. Supreme Court finally drove a stake through the heart of the discredited claim by Abigail Fisher, a white student, that she was illegally discriminated against in her unsuccessful application in 2008 to the University of Texas at Austin. Read more...
By Rick Seltzer. New study on compensation for leaders of state colleges and universities finds costs for bonuses and other expensive benefits are growing. Read more...
By Rick Seltzer. Using a search firm to recruit a new president or provost can cost public colleges and universities the better part of $100,000 -- or more. Read more...
By Rick Seltzer. Plymouth State plans to replace them with clusters. Restructuring and layoffs have professors scratching their heads. Read more...