The 21st-Century Workplace: Forces and Skills Defined
It was 1988, and fresh from a job interview, recent college graduate Stacey Garcia* had braved Southern California freeway traffic to attend a career search workshop at her alma mater. […]
Daily Archives: June 24, 2011
Latinos Prove to be Influential in US Politics
By COHA Research Associate Mark Loyka Halfway through his third year in office, President Barack Obama has begun his re-election campaign. On June 14th, President Obama made a brief, yet […]
Ivory Tower
Meaning A state of sheltered and unworldly intellectual isolation. Origin The first mention of ivory towers is in the Bible, Song of Solomon 7:4 (King James Version): Thy neck is […]
Most Presidents Prefer No Tenure for Majority of Faculty
Even many leaders of private and public colleges want more long-term contracts for professors By Jack Stripling The deteriorating number of tenured positions in higher education is a common source […]
English Composition Nonsense
Murray Sperber over at the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy offers some suggestions to reform the college writing process. His thesis: Because America‘s middle and high schools […]
Our Universities: How Bad? How Good?
Tim Davis/Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New YorkCouch in Car, Vassar College, 2010; photograph by Tim Davis from Vassar’s sesquicentennial exhibition ‘150 Years Later: New Photography by Tina Barney, Tim Davis, […]
Crisis of Confidence Threatens Colleges
Randy Lyhus for The Chronicle By Karin Fischer The American higher-education system has long been seen as a leader in the world, but confidence in its future and its […]
Strategy For Improving Latino Education As Minority Population Soars
By Andrea Nill Sanchez For the past several years, education has topped the list of Latino voter priorities — often beating out even immigration, health care, and jobs. Enthusiasm for […]
$37 Interest Weekly on $60,000 Student Loans – No Job Offer
By Christopher Magan and Lindsey Hilty For Tim Balzer, graduate school has become a place of financial refuge. The 2002 Little Miami High School alum is accruing $37 in interest […]
ASU tuition, Fees Will Increase 9.9 %
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Tuition and fees for the 2011-12 academic year at Angelo State University will increase 9.9 percent, or $331.05 per semester for a full-time student taking 15 […]
Doing Students and Parents a Favor: Publicizing Criticisms Higher Ed
Peter Thiel is not the enemy of all parents who ever felt cold terror shoot up their spine upon hearing their teen offhandedly talk about skipping college. Thiel, an early investor […]
Students to Get Best-buy Facts and Consumer Rights
By Sean Coughlan If the higher education system in England is going to become a market as never before, then students are going to be its mystery shoppers. If you’re […]
U.S. Colleges’ Appeal Fading for Foreign Students
By Mary Beth Marklein More than 50 U.S. colleges and universities participated in a higher education fair in Jakarta, Indonesia, to recruit students to U.S. colleges. The University of Cincinnati […]
Performance-based System For University Research
By Keith McDowell The bane of all individual independent researchers is the moment when one must put pen to paper to frame the next grant proposal from an ill-formed idea. […]
About 86 percent of Texas Lawmakers Have Four-year Degrees, compared to 25 percent of Texans
Report: Texas Legislature has greatest percentage of lawyers By Patrick Brende As a hub for tort reform and conservative rhetoric, Texas might be expected to have a statehouse with a […]
Making American Schoolkids Competitive Again
By Bryant Urstadt In August 2004, Salman Khan agreed to help his niece, Nadia, with her math homework. Nadia was headed into seventh grade in New Orleans, where Khan had […]
Schools Struggle to Balance Digital Innovation, Academic Accountability
By Michelle R. Davis When North Carolina’s Mooresville Graded School District launched a 1-to-1 laptop initiative three years ago, Superintendent Mark Edwards prepared himself for an”innovation dip,” a small drop […]
Unemployed, Incarcerated, or Dead, Take Your Pick
A new College Board study says that almost 50 percent of minority high school male graduates face daunting futures. By Danielle Wright Almost half of high school male graduates of […]
Training More Latinos to Take the Helm of Hispanic-serving School Districts
Out of the 14,000 school districts across the nation, less than 2 percent have a Latino or Latina superintendent. A new professional development program hopes to change those statistics. The […]
Using the American Dream as Bait: Offering a Lifetime of Debt
by U.S. Rep. Mike Honda and Wade Henderson We applaud the White House and the U.S. Department of Edu-cation’s issuance of a strong gainful employment rule to ensure for-profit colleges […]
Failing Schools? On Waivers, It’s Congress That’s Flunking: View
No Child Left Behind, the package of federal education reforms approved in 2001 is now in dire need of reform itself. On June 10, Arne Duncan, the U.S. secretary of […]
Presidential Wannabes Mum on Schools
By Jay Mathews Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney declared his candidacy for president (last week.) I went to his Web site to read his ideas about education. There weren’t any. […]
Huntsman: Presidential Campaign ‘A Last-Minute Decision’
By Beth Reinhard ORLANDO—When President Obama nominated Jon Huntsman to be his ambassador to China in 2009, he lauded the then-Republican governor’s expertise in trade issues, his prior diplomatic experience, […]
WSJ: Rick Perry to Run for President
AUSTIN, Texas, June 24 (UPI) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry has decided to run for president and will join the GOP primary race before the Iowa Straw Poll, The Wall […]
Proposed Teacher Merit-pay Program, Few Hands in the Air
By Kevin Sieff Virginia’s ambitious program to compensate teachers based on performance has encountered its first hurdle: Only 6 percent of eligible schools have elected to participate. Gov. Robert F. […]
Are the Rising Costs of College Tuition Out of Control?
Survey – 92% say yes The rising tuition fees will significantly destroy the hopes of future students from attending higher education to envolve their carrers The higher tuitions costs will […]
Colleges’ High Cost Threatens Nation’s Future
A college degree is arguably worth more than ever in this still-recovering economy. In Michigan, so is its price. The state’s public colleges and universities are setting tuition for the […]
