Higher Education

Candace de Russy raises the alarm over at Phi Beta Cons: In “First They Came for Fox News,” Claudia Rosett remarks “how dangerous it is when the President of the United States gives his staff and advisers a green light to single out and denigrate by name a specific news organization,” namely, Fox, which has […]

The idea that colleges aren’t effectively measuring what they teach their students has largely taken hold in higher education reform circles. But Inside Higher Ed reports that this isn’t problem—rather, the issue is that colleges don’t do much with this information. Those findings come from a report being released today by the National Institute for […]

This shouldn’t come as a surprise: Part of New York Gov. David Paterson’s plan to deal with the state’s $3 billion budget deficit could be a big blow to higher education. Paterson’s two year-plan would cut $90 million from the State University of New York and $53 million from the small City University of New […]

This kid is pretty great: OXFORD, England — Instead of chasing after wide receivers in the N.F.L., Myron Rolle came here to chase ghosts around the ancient campus of the University of Oxford. Rolle, 22, established himself as an elite student and athlete at Florida State, becoming a Rhodes scholar and a top N.F.L. prospect. […]

The Boston Globe has up an interesting interview with Rebecca Cox, an assistant professor of education at Seton Hall University who just wrote a book in which “she describes a wide gulf between professors, who cling tightly to an idealized image of college and its students, and anxious students, who may harbor deep doubts that […]

The big news out of the Land of Lincoln this week—well, other than this—was the resignation, on Tuesday, of University of Illinois chancellor Richard Herman on the heels of a series of Chicago Tribune reports about his school’s admissions policies. Herman’s resignation wasn’t all that unexpected—the U of I’s system president and six trustees had […]

Inside Higher Ed: As pressure has built on colleges and universities to prove their performance to increasingly questioning external audiences, many institutions have realized that they must start by better understanding their own strengths and weaknesses. That has led increasing numbers of individual institutions, public university systems (like the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities), and […]

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is speaking at Columbia University’s Teachers College today to draw attention to what he calls the “mediocre job” that schools of education are doing to prepare teachers for “the realities of the 21st-century classroom.” Kelly Field writes: In a prepared text of his […]

Via Reuters, StudentAid.com has announced the release of an advanced technology that will help colleges and universities provide the public with greater cost transparency via Web-based net cost calculators. 2008’s Higher Education Opportunity Act requires all Title IV-eligible institutions of higher education to provide net cost calculators on their Web sites so prospective students and […]

Inside Higher Ed reports that Kenneth C. Green, director of the Campus Computing Project, has released a study today of online education programs detailing that even though online university initiatives are exploding, many colleges have little knowledge of how to properly administer them, whether the programs are profitable, and how they stack up compared to […]