By . President Obama is poised to name a senior official to act as a liaison between universities and the U.S. Agency for International Development. The appointee, likely to be a former university leader, also will act as an “internal champion” within the agency for working with higher education, Eric G. Postal, an assistant administrator at USAID, said in a speech here on Sunday at the annual meeting of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities. More...
By . A report released on Tuesday by a coalition of advocacy groups highlights the impact of federal budget cuts, including those made through the process known as sequestration, on programs related to higher education, job training, scientific research, and other areas. The report, “Faces of Austerity: How Budget Cuts Have Made Us Sicker, Poorer, and Less Secure,” released by NDD United, lays out a series of examples of how people have been affected by such cuts. More...
By Megan Starling. “It’s great to see you, Megan! How are things at Rhodes? How much longer do you think you’ll stay in admission?”
That line of questioning is not unfamiliar to me, even while catching up with friends at the National Association for College Admission Counseling’s annual conference. One session offered at the most recent meeting, in September in Toronto, questioned why more women don’t serve in the highest leadership positions on college campuses, including the office of admission. More...
By Cathy N. Davidson. Since August of 2011, on what started out as a book tour, I've visited more than 80 campuses, research centers, association meetings, corporate events, foundations, academic leadership gatherings, and policy centers. The conversations have been as diverse as the institutions themselves, but there's been one notable area of concurrence: the shortage of talented faculty leaders at our institutions of higher learning. More...
By Derek Bok. Graduate study for the Ph.D. in the United States presents a curious paradox. Our universities have developed thousands of distinguished scientists and scholars. More than half the winners of Nobel Prizes in the sciences and economics from 1997 to 2007 did their graduate work in this country, continuing a pattern that has persisted since the end of World War II. Students all over the world come here for graduate training, and universities in many other nations have expanded and reformed their doctoral programs to resemble our method more closely. More...
The United States remains the world's top destination for international students. A record 819,644 studied at American colleges in 2012-13, an increase of 7.2 percent, according to new data from the Institute of International Education's annual "Open Doors" report. Still, only 3.9 percent of students on American campuses are from overseas. More...
By Carol Patton. What tops the list of HR challenges at your college or university? Managing soaring health care costs? Maybe it’s faculty recruitment, succession planning, or shrinking budgets. Below, HR professionals from four different schools share their chief concerns, revealing why it’s getting more difficult to get a good night’s sleep. By Kylie Lacey. Leaders at public flagship universities, regional institutions, and community colleges are reporting more capped enrollments than in past years, according to “2013 National Survey of Access and Funding and Issues in Public Higher Education” released last month by the Education Policy Center at The University of Alabama. Read more...By Tim Gilmour. From the perspective of a retired university president, the expressions of concern from most of America’s higher education leaders about President Obama’s proposed “Plan to Make College More Affordable” are a lot like looking a gift horse in the mouth. My former colleagues are portraying the plan as another potential serious intrusion on the historic autonomy of America’s colleges and universities. Read more...By Kristen Domonell. Recruitment practices at private colleges and universities just got a little more complicated under the 2013 updates to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The updates, which went into effect Oct. 16, require schools to receive written consent for all autodialed and prerecorded calls and texts sent or made to cell phones, as well as for prerecorded calls made to residential landlines for marketing purposes. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
