By John Ebersole. The arrival of a new year brings with it the opportunity to reflect on that which occurred over the past twelve months and to look ahead at what awaits. For us in higher education, here is a list of issues that will be with us in 2015. Some are new. Others carryover from 2014. Each will likely require our time and attention. More...
By Andrew Zimbalist. One day after Jim Harbaugh was fired by the NFL's San Francisco 49ers, he signed a seven-year contract to coach at the University of Michigan. According to the Michigan Athletic Director, Harbaugh will be paid a guaranteed annual salary of $5 million, plus healthy bonuses for team success, a $2 million signing bonus and an unspecified amount of deferred salary. The AD said Harbaugh's compensation package is similar to what he got from the 49ers. More...
By Elizabeth Crisp. Joe Rallo has been a Navy intelligence officer, an Air Force colonel, an adviser on European Union-United States relations, and a college professor and administrator.
He has degrees in international relations and Russian history as well as a law degree, and he speaks French and Italian.
This week, the New York native is taking on his latest role: Louisiana higher education commissioner, a position that will have him overseeing the systems that lead the state’s two-year and four-year colleges and universities. More...
By Michael L. Lomax. Recently, the Obama administration released the draft metrics of its long-awaited college rating system. Unfortunately, the proposed system appears to have major shortcomings — and it threatens to divert attention from the real challenges facing colleges and universities that educate large numbers of disadvantaged students.
Since the passage of the 1965 Higher Education Act, the role of the federal government has been to see that students with limited means get the opportunity for a college education. More...
Recently, the Obama administration released the draft metrics of its long-awaited college rating system. Unfortunately, the proposed system appears to have major shortcomings — and it threatens to divert attention from the real challenges facing colleges and universities that educate large numbers of disadvantaged students.
Since the passage of the 1965 Higher Education Act, the role of the federal government has been to see that students with limited means get the opportunity for a college education.
- See more at: http://amestrib.com/opinion/michael-l-lomax-obama-s-plan-could-hurt-black-colleges#sthash.V89ldldX.dpufBy Caroline Howard. At first glance, school appears pretty much the same as it did when your grandparents or parents learned the ‘New Math’ or headed off to college with a typewriter. Look harder, and what and how we learn and teach is markedly changing.
Some of the credit for this great transformation is due to the 30 young people on this list (not to mention our past 30 Under 30 honorees in education). These change-makers are ripe to ripple and quake the educational system as we know it, from grade school up through higher ed. More...
By . Many of the UK’s leading universities are refusing to spell out just how they are spending their students’ £9,000 a year tuition fees.
New move by Council for Higher Education essentially creates the first private universities in the country
In a unanimous vote, Israel's Council for Higher Education approved this week for colleges, not just universities, to begin awarding doctoral degrees, therefore creating the first private universities in the country.
PhD programs that will be offered in the private colleges will require approval from both the council and an international committee. More...
Minister Todor Tanev has pledged a new Education Act instead of patchy amendments and insertions to the existing one.
In a Sunday interview for the Bulgarian National Television, he claimed that the main problem of universities was the creation of unemployment.
Bulgaria’s Education Minister, as cited by dnevnik.bg, insisted that universities were not supposed to be closed by administrative means. More...
Close to 40% faculty positions in the country's higher educational institutes are vacant. While central institutions and institutes of national importance had a better student to faculty ratio, state public universities took the brunt of the shortage, experts said.
B Venkatesh Kumar, professor and chairperson, centre for public policy, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, said there are two reasons for the lack of good faculty. More...
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