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30 septembre 2013

When Rating Colleges, Think Diving

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/all/themes/ihecustom/logo.jpgBy Walter M. Kimbrough. About one month ago, President Obama announced plans for sweeping changes in higher education. In short, he wants the system to be much more efficient, affordable, and timely. Numerous reports have indicated the cost of higher education has increased at rapid rates. Bloomberg indicated that since I started college in 1985, the cost has risen by 500 percent. Read more...

28 septembre 2013

A Nudge to Poorer Students to Aim High on Colleges

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/nytlogo152x23.gifBy . The group that administers the SAT has begun a nationwide outreach program to try to persuade more low-income high school seniors who scored high on standardized tests to apply to select colleges. The group, the College Board, is sending a package of information on top colleges to every senior who has an SAT or Preliminary SAT score in the top 15 percent of test takers and whose family is in the bottom quarter of income distribution. The package, which includes application fee waivers to six colleges of the student’s choice, will be sent to roughly 28,000 seniors. More...

28 septembre 2013

Supporting Colleagues and Students at UVA

http://www.hastac.org/files/imagecache/Small/hastac-icon.jpgBy Cathy Davidson. HASTAC readers may have heard by now that, with no warning, the University of Virginia Board of Regents demanded last week that the relatively new President of the University, Teresa Sullivan, resign immediately and be stripped of all duties, with an interim person assigned to report directly to the Regents until an acting president can be appointed. This action against Pres Sullivan, who came to UVA from a distinguished time as Provost at the University of Michigan only two years ago, was organized in secret, skirting around established procedures for open administrative review designed to circumvent exactly this kind of unilateral action, especially against an official who enjoys great support from her fellow administrators, her faculty, and her students. Some are calling what happened at this distinguished university an "educational coup." The Board justified its extreme actions by saying that the President was not acting fast enough to cut the budget of the University. This is especially shocking. Sullivan had to spend much of her first years working with faculty to assemble her own administrative team. More...

21 septembre 2013

Profit and Higher Ed

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/all/themes/ihecustom/logo.jpgBy Paul Fain. The regulation of for-profit higher education is a hot topic once again, thanks in part to a second round of negotiations over gainful employment rules, which begin today.
Previous federal efforts to crack down on for-profits crested in 2012 with Senator Tom Harkin’s investigation of the sector. The inquiry yielded a massive report, much of it critical. Yet Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, said some for-profits play a key role by serving neglected students. Read more...

18 septembre 2013

Proposed university framework causes a stir in Québec

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQWMTBx0CPzMFK637Zb6AgNbjhxfVRtTVkrwKoq4ZPL2p18KKWOEwB3AWIBy Marie Lambert-Chan. Recommendations include dismantling the Université du Québec network. A working group preparing a university framework for the Quebec government published a wide-ranging report that aims to rethink the foundations of the province’s universities; those foundations were rocked by student protests during the so-called Maple Spring. In doing so, the report’s authors, Lise Bissonnette and John R. Porter, drew praise from some and criticism from others.
The government mandated Ms. Bissonnette and Mr. Porter – who chair the board of directors of Université du Québec à Montréal and Université Laval, respectively – to write the report (PDF) after last February’s Summit on Higher Education in Quebec. The report defines the university’s mission and values, describes governance, proposes creating a national council of universities, and reviews the proliferation of short programs and the rules related to student democracy. More...

18 septembre 2013

Higher education needs to pay attention to both value and affordability to rebuild middle class

https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/258990051/logo2_normal.jpgBy Thomas J. Botzman. American ingenuity and innovation have fueled our way of life for generations. Although the most obvious signs of innovation are new products, such as handheld computing devices or cars that can park themselves, other forms of innovation are also needed to create a robust economy. Higher education innovates in our academic programs that provide both employable skills and a base for responsible citizenship. During his recent multi-city tour, President Barack Obama expressed a belief that future innovation, a thriving economy and an affordable college education are linked together. More...

18 septembre 2013

A New Giant in Brazil

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/blog_landing/public/the_world_view_blog_header.jpg?itok=P3OlGEpQBy Marcelo Knobel. Brazil has the world's 7th largest Gross Domestic Product (GDP), with a population of around 195 million inhabitants, distributed in 27 states (more than five thousand cities). The country has a peculiar higher education system, with a relatively small number of public research universities and a large number of private institutions, both philanthropic and for-profit. Although the system has been growing substantially in the last 15 years, the number of young people attending the university has not exceeded 14% of the 18-25 age cohort eligible to pursue university level study. Approximately 6 million students attend a higher education institution in Brazil— 75% of these students are enrolled in private institutions (approximately half of them are for-profit institutions). Read more...

17 septembre 2013

Did I Really Go to Harvard if I Got My Degree Taking Online Classes?

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/newsroom/img/2013/08/07/0913%20Cover/mag-issue-large.jpg?mr5zi1By . At extension schools, it's possible to get an Ivy-League education at a fraction of the price, with lower admissions standards.
About two years ago, my classmates and I gathered in Harvard Yard to receive our graduate degrees alongside more than 7,000 of the university's newest alumni. As the procession made its way to our designated seating area, an onlooker eyed our banner with a puzzled look and asked the guy in front of me, “What in the world is the Extension School?”
My classmate’s reply: “It’s the back door into Harvard.” Ouch.
I often felt the same way – that I’d snuck into one of the world’s premier institutions for higher learning. There is little chance that my slightly-above-average undergraduate GPA and an extra-curricular résumé that only consisted of a part-time job at a music store would’ve secured a spot for me in one of Harvard’s ultra-competitive graduate schools. Yet, with no admission letter in hand and exactly zero hours spent preparing for graduate admissions tests, I became a Harvard student.
And I was not alone. The Extension School – Harvard’s degree-granting continuing education school – has a student population of more than 13,000. In fact, almost all of the Ivy League schools offer courses to “nontraditional students,” which the National Center for Education Statistics considers to be those who are older than typical college graduates, work full-time, or are financially independent and may have family dependents. More...

16 septembre 2013

The NSA's next move: silencing university professors?

http://static.guim.co.uk/static/c55907932af8ee96c21b7d89a9ebeedb4602fbbf/common/images/logos/the-guardian/news.gifBy . A Johns Hopkins computer science professor blogs on the NSA and is asked to take it down. I fear for academic freedom.
This actually happened yesterday:
A professor in the computer science department at Johns Hopkins, a leading American university, had written a post on his blog, hosted on the university's servers, focused on his area of expertise, which is cryptography. The post was highly critical of the government, specifically the National Security Agency, whose reckless behavior in attacking online security astonished him. More...

15 septembre 2013

Higher education is headed for a shakeout, analysts warn

http://hechingerreport.org/images/logo_thr.pngBy . Facing skeptical customers, declining enrollment, an antiquated financial model that is hemorrhaging money, and new kinds of low-cost competition, some U.S. universities and colleges may be going the way of the music and journalism industries.
Their predicament has become so bad that financial analysts, regulators and bond-rating agencies are beginning to warn that many colleges and universities could close. Read more...

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