By Hunter R. Rawlings III. As he departs as president of the Association of American Universities, Hunter R. Rawlings III considers where leading research universities are today. Read more...
12 mai 2016
Skin in the Game
By Carlo Salerno. No concept is arguably more popular in higher education policy today or seems to have broader consensus than institutional “skin in the game”: the idea that colleges need to be on some sort of financial hook when their students don’t succeed. Read more...
What's Right and Wrong About Research Universities
'A Body, Undone'
By Scott McLemee. Somewhere along the way, Nietzsche’s apothegm “That which does not destroy me makes me stronger” lost all the irony and ambiguity it had in context and turned into an edifying sentiment -- a motivational catchphrase, even on the order of that poster saying, “Hang in there, baby!” with the cat clinging to a tree branch. Read more...
Your Future Starts Here. Or Here. Or Here.
By Ellen Wexler. To sell themselves, colleges try to stand out. But often, their marketing efforts look practically identical. Read more...
Watchdog Barks -- and Gets Slapped Down
By Paul Fain. National accreditor ACICS, which faces an existential threat for being too lax with bad actors like Corinthian Colleges, tried to yank its approval of Bristol U, a deeply troubled for-profit. But a judge blocked the accreditor's move. Read more...
More Educated, More Liberal
By Scott Jaschik. Study finds those with graduate education not only lean more to the left than do other Americans, but have done so increasingly in the last two decades. Read more...
Can AI fix education? We asked Bill Gates
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. The rise of smartphones has transformed the way students communicate and entertain themselves. But the classrooms they spend so much of their time in remain stubbornly resistant to transformation. Bill Gates is working to change all that. More...
11 mai 2016
Online Vs. Traditional: Which is the Better Platform?
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Picture this. Two friends go out to eat for lunch; friend number one discusses the hard work of being a college student and juggling class schedules with work. More...
Higher Ed Needs Major Disruption
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Happily, there exists an alternative to four bankrupting years on campus. There’s almost no learning, be it liberal arts or STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), that can’t be had free — or close to it — online. MOOCs (massive open online courses) are perfectly suited to disrupt the campus model. More...
09 mai 2016
Le rôle des universités dans le transfert des connaissances
Recognizing that we need all kinds of research – both “the new new,” and that which yields results and innovation for the benefit of society and the economy, we recently asked Canadians some questions about what they expect from universities when it comes to research. More...
