By Liz Reisberg. While New York University and Fort Hays State University in Kansas were pacifying fears in the US Congress about limits placed on academic freedom for their campuses in China, Stockholm University joined the University of Chicago and Penn State and closed the Confucius Institute on its campus. Read more...
By Marcelo Knobel. A recent blog by Luciane Stallivieri about the ambitious Brazilian mobility program of college students (Brazil's Science Without Borders Program, May 31, 2015) hit the nail on the head regarding several issues in this debate. Read more...
By Alex Usher. So the big news in May in Santiago was the announcement of the start of the "free tuition" plan, that was part of President Michelle Bachelet's election platform in 2013. Only it's not quite free tuition, and it's still not clear how it will be paid for. Read more...
By Kris Olds. Editor's note: Que Anh Dang is a Marie Curie Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK. This guest entry is based on her direct observations at Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Education Process and European Higher Education Area (EHEA) ministerial meetings in April and May 2015. Read more...
By Lee Skallerup Bessette. Last week, I was in Asheville for the Institute for New Faculty Developers, which is put on by POD. These are my “people” now, this is my community, at least professionally. Some were already a part of my larger community, those who mentored me and helped me get into this profession to begin with. Others connected with me over this past year, through this blog, through Twitter, and the community, for me, slowly grew. Read more...
By Kristine Maloney. It was impossible to miss the news of Harvard’s $400 million gift earlier this month. The historic announcement received media attention around the world, spanned several news cycles, and initiated a rash of op-eds and blog pieces that ran for weeks following the initial news. More...By Donna Lehmann. Last month, AdWeek urged us marketers to move on. "Still Obsessing Over the Millennials?" it asked, "Here are 6 Rules for Reaching Generation Z." We have seemingly ushered another generation into adulthood and now here’s a new crop of college-bound youngsters with a listicle of distinct attributes and marketing vulnerabilities. Ready the cannons. More...By Mallory Wood. Higher ed is complex and marketing and communications doesn’t escape this reality. Developing or implementing an integrated marketing and communications strategy is complicated. More...By Michael Stoner. Several years ago, I realized that Barry Commoner’s first law of ecology (“Everything is connected to everything else. There is one ecosphere for all living organisms and what affects one, affects all.”) applied to branding, too. More...By Teresa Valerio Parrot. I’m thinking about having t-shirts printed so I can hand them out to a number of my colleagues at the next conference I attend. They will say, “I get paid to tell the truth, so get your money’s worth.” More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
