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The 21st-Century Workplace: Forces and Skills Defined

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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.  Sprinting from a university parking lot to the student services center in a business suit, she recalls arriving five minutes late and out of breath, … Continue reading »

Latinos Prove to be Influential in US Politics

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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 symbolically important, visit to the United States’ territory of Puerto Rico in a pointed effort to reach out to Latino voters, an increasingly powerful electoral … Continue reading »

Ivory Tower

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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 as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon … Continue reading »

Most Presidents Prefer No Tenure for Majority of Faculty

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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 of concern for faculty, but few college presidents seem perturbed by the trend. Less than a quarter of college leaders who responded to a Pew … Continue reading »

English Composition Nonsense

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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 have failed to teach students the fundamentals of sound composition, the task falls to colleges and universities. Unfortunately, Sperber argues, english composition classes now embrace … Continue reading »

Our Universities: How Bad? How Good?

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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, Katherine Newbegin,’ at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York, through March 27, 2011 By Peter Brooks The rhetoric of crisis seems to … Continue reading »

Crisis of Confidence Threatens Colleges

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­­ 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 enduring value may be beginning to crack along economic lines, according to two major surveys of the American public and college presidents conducted this spring. … Continue reading »

Strategy For Improving Latino Education As Minority Population Soars

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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 higher education has been much higher among Latinos compared to the general population. Yet, their hopes and expectations don’t yet match up with reality. While … Continue reading »

$37 Interest Weekly on $60,000 Student Loans – No Job Offer

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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 weekly on his more than $60,000 in student loans that so far have bought him two undergraduate majors, a minor and a master’s degree, all … Continue reading »

ASU tuition, Fees Will Increase 9.9 %

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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 credit hours. The increase approved Thursday is the maximum allowed under a cap set this past spring by the Board of Regents of the Texas … Continue reading »

Doing Students and Parents a Favor: Publicizing Criticisms Higher Ed

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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 in a little web startup called Facebook, recently garnered national headlines when he announced that he’s paying 24 teenagers $100,000 to drop out or delay … Continue reading »

Students to Get Best-buy Facts and Consumer Rights

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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 spending up to £9,000 each year on tuition fees, you want to know what you’re getting. So how are students going to decide? Universities from … Continue reading »

U.S. Colleges’ Appeal Fading for Foreign Students

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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 passes out pennants. At a booth for Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, three young Indonesians talk up their alma mater. And U.S. Embassy officials tout the … Continue reading »

Performance-based System For University Research

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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. Independent of the quality of idea – whether innovative, transformational, or really dumb, the first step for the researcher is always the same: send money! … Continue reading »

About 86 percent of Texas Lawmakers Have Four-year Degrees, compared to 25 percent of Texans

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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 demonstrable anti-attorney bias. If that’s the case, then Texas lawmakers are a self-loathing bunch. According to a new nationwide study by The Chronicle of Higher … Continue reading »

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