Higher Education

The actual piece is behind a paywall, unfortunately, but a blog post over at The Chronicle points to an extremely provocative article: Is your administration using “the economy” as an excuse to extort more work for less pay from an already overburdened faculty? Buying Howard Bunsis a plane ticket to your campus might be the […]

I like this list of “Laws of Academic Life” from Sir David Watson, winner of the Times (U.K.) Higher Education’s 2009 Lord Dearing Lifetime Achievement Award. Here are a few of them: * Academics grow in confidence the farther away they are from their true fields of expertise (what you really know about is provisional […]

From The New York Times: Winston Chin hustles on Tuesdays from his eight-hour shift as a lab technician to his writing class at Bunker Hill Community College, a requirement for the associate’s degree he is seeking in hopes of a better job. He is a typical part-time student, with one exception. His class runs from […]

As Jesse noted earlier today, collegiate athletics spending has been surging with the momentum of an offensive lineman, but schools with major football programs agree that rising costs cannot be sustained. According to a study released Monday by the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, most Football Bowl Subdivision university presidents believe that some kind of […]

As this Inside Higher Ed article notes, Blackboard is, at the moment, the clear leader when it comes to providing e-learning tools. But a new partnership between The New York Times and SunGard Higher Education is going to at least make things more interesting: SunGard Higher Education is today announcing plans to integrate Epsilen, a […]

Inside Higher Ed passes along some interesting survey results: College presidents recognize the need for major changes in big-time college athletics but doubt they can do anything to bring about reforms, according to a new survey of campus leaders released Monday by the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics at a meeting to mark the group’s […]

From The New York Times: Congress has not given final approval to legislation ending federal subsidies for private student loans for college. But Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sent a letter Monday to thousands of colleges and universities urging them to get ready to use the government’s Direct Loan Program in the 2010-11 school year. […]

Florida Today has a good piece about prepaid college savings plans in Florida—where tuition at state universities increased by as much as 15 percent these year, 9 percentage points above the usual annual norm—and how it is becoming more and more difficult for families to afford to enroll in them. Since the plans allow families […]

It’s getting harder to be accepted into college, right? With more and more people applying, it’s an inevitable trend. Well, maybe not. Inside Higher Ed provides some valuable debunking: The problem — according to a major research project released Monday by a leading scholar of higher education — is that there are two trends at […]

From The Chronicle: Critics have sometimes blamed the accreditation standards of the American Bar Association for driving up the cost of law school and making it more difficult for students of color to be admitted to those programs. But a report released on Monday by the Government Accountability Office says that most law schools surveyed […]