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21 septembre 2014

Merger Causes and Consequences

HomeBy Susan Resneck Pierce. The litany of problems is well-known to readers of Inside Higher Ed: declining enrollment; untenable tuition discounts; too much debt; the growing skepticism on the part of prospective students, their families and elected officials about whether the value of a college education is worth the cost; staggering amounts of deferred maintenance and decreased state support for public campuses. Read more...
21 septembre 2014

Holding On to What We've Got

HomeBy David Galef. Student retention has been in the news a lot lately, but for a long time, no one at U of All People took it too seriously, since we’ve always had the same 20 percent rate of graduation within 20 years. To supplement our data, we also rely on anecdotal evidence, such as Professor Daissa Frogg’s looking around his biology lab in 2005 and exclaiming, “Where is everybody?” As it turned out, Professor Frogg had simply got the time wrong, and most of the students were at lunch. Read more...
21 septembre 2014

Solid Employment Rates for Science Ph.D.s

HomeBy Scott Jaschik. The 2013 unemployment rate for those with research doctoral degrees in science, engineering and health fields was 2.1 percent, one-third of the rate for the general population aged 25 or older, according to an analysis released by the National Science Foundation on Friday. Read more...
21 septembre 2014

Warnings About Tuition Discounting

HomeBy Andrew Trounson for The Australian. As Australia prepares to deregulate the setting of tuition prices, experts there are warning that universities will adopt a heretofore foreign practice that is common in the United States: discounting prices. Read more...
21 septembre 2014

Tracking a Discipline's Evolution

HomeBy Kaitlin Mulhere. Two Kent State University professors frustrated by the lack of analytical data on the evolution of their discipline have compiled all of the field’s doctoral dissertations into a database to track growth and changes in the field. Read more...
21 septembre 2014

Something Old, Something New

HomeBy Carl Straumsheim. The National Endowment for the Humanities has a new home and a new chairman, but the agency’s work to fund digital humanities projects continues unabated. The NEH Digital Humanities Project Directors Meeting was hosted for the eighth time in Washington on Monday, but for the first time in the agency’s new premises in the recently renovated Constitution Center. Read more...
21 septembre 2014

Thinking Chair

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Some 30 years ago, Eugene Fram, then a professor of marketing at Rochester Institute of Technology, returned a complex assignment to a graduate student with a large “C” at the top. The paper – which asked students to respond to a provocative statement about marketing with background information and citations – had been turned in late and was poorly written. Read more...
21 septembre 2014

The New Cambridge

HomeBy Chris Havergal for Times Higher Education. The £1 billion ($1.63 billion) North West Cambridge development will eventually boast 3,000 homes, half of them set aside for university staff, plus 100,000 square meters of research space and 2,000 additional bedrooms for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. Read more...
21 septembre 2014

Predicting Where Students Go

HomeBy Ry Rivard. A trio of senior college enrollment officials gave a peek into how they decide which students to recruit. The process now involves number-crunching students’ demographic and economic information — not just sending chipper ambassadors to every nearby high school, mailing glossy books to students’ homes and relying on gut instincts. Read more...
21 septembre 2014

Sharing Intel on Completion

HomeBy Paul Fain. A new coalition of 11 large public research universities plans to work together on techniques to improve their graduation rates, particularly for lower-income students. Dubbed the University Innovation Alliance, the group hopes to dial back the hyper-competitiveness and quest for exclusivity in higher education that can stymie collaboration on how to help students get to graduation. Read more...
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