Recently added articles from Change:
College costs and prices.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Jan 01, 2009; ... I read Jane Wellman's thoughtful essay (The Higher Education Funding disconnect: Spending More, Getting Less, Change, November/December 2008) just after spending three days with students at UMass Boston, the very students whose lives are in the balance these days. And while their ...
Funding floors.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Jan 01, 2009 ... While exposing the myth that more money does not necessarily mean higher graduation rates ("No Correlation: Musings on Some Myths About Quality," Change, November/December 2008), Peter T. Ewell then perpetuates other myths by not acknowledging the complex relationship between institutional ...
Training technocrats, educating citizens.(Barack Obama and college students)(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2009; ... As I write this, we have just elected a new president. There has been dancing in the streets, I know for sure, in New York, San Francisco, and Chicago--and, I suspect, in Jakarta and Nairobi. People are dancing because they have hope--hope that the little solutions we have managed to come ...
Carnegie, Dupont Circle, and the AAUP: (re) shaping a cosmopolitan, locally engaged professoriate.
Jan 01, 2009; ... AS I write this article, I am still a professor of higher education, as I have been for twenty-two years--someone who studies and teaches about what has happened and is happening in higher education. By the time I read this article in print, I will have started my new position as general ...
Back to the basics: in defense of achievement (and achievement tests) in college admissions.
Jan 01, 2009; ... How should we define "readiness for college," and what should we look for when reviewing applicants for admission? Over most of the last century, there have been two schools of thought on these questions. The traditional view has emphasized achievement, as demonstrated by students' ...
Courageous conversations: and the importance of student success.(community colleges)
Jan 01, 2009 ... With the economy in chaos and a new administration taking power, the nation is looking for a better way to meet the educational and vocational needs of its citizens. A key strategy may reside in that most American of educational institutions, the community college. Two-year colleges have ...
We miss you in the academy.(Southern Vermont College president policies)(Essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Last year, we had a wonderful speaker on race, gender, and class in the 21st century at Southern Vermont College. She was someone whom I had known both professionally and personally for more than 15 years. After the lecture, in a rare quiet moment we had together, she remarked," We miss ...
Books worth reading.(From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession, and Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School)
Jan 01, 2009; ... At a time when market models have transformed thinking in virtually all our major social institutions, we are fortunate to have two new books that take us back to business school, where these models have been most fully developed and whence they have been most widely spread. Indeed, as ...
The Common Application: when competitors collaborate.(organizational membership)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Started in 1975 by 16 private colleges, the Common Application (CA) is a voluntary not-for-profit membership organization that provides a common admissions application that students can submit to any member institution. By allowing students to apply to multiple institutions using the same ...
Mentorship in graduate education.(biological researcher)
Jan 01, 2009; ... The first time I entered the Cornwall lab at Boston University School of Medicine, I was overwhelmed. Racks of electronic equipment filled the room. Microscopes, chemicals, and optical gear bordered every open space, while wires branched through the lab like roots seeking water. Dr. M ....
Accountability and accreditation.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2008; ... Anne Neal's polemic against accreditation ("Seeking Higher-Ed Accountability: Ending Federal Accreditation," Change, September/October 2007) is rife with contradictions and reveals an underlying ideological agenda as her real goal. For example, in the name of freeing institutions from the ...
Students as co-inquirers.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2008; ... What an admirable initiative to engage students as ethnographers of their own university ("Interrogating the University, One Archival Entry at a Time," Change, September/October 2008)! The EUI project represents an exemplary model for recognizing learners' expertise and for documenting ...
Financial aid for the non-needy.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2008; ... William Doyle is right ("Follow the Money," Change, September/October 2008) that billions of dollars in institutional scholarship funds could be put to better use helping lower-income students, rather than high-income students, get their degrees. The irony is that many college presidents ...
The new professionals.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Nov 01, 2008; ... While we wholeheartedly endorse Parker Palmer's call for a new professional ("A New Professional: The Aims of Education Revisited," Change, November/December 2007), we urge caution in the adoption of the second principle described in the article: "We must take our students' emotions as ...
Professing truth(s).(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
Nov 01, 2008; ... What is now proved was once only imagined. --William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell As I was reading through this issue, I was intrigued to find that several articles assumed a set of professional norms for academics. The discovery in turn reminded me of Lee ...
No correlation: musings on some myths about quality.
Nov 01, 2008; ... For an enterprise dedicated to truth, American higher education harbors a lot of myths. Frequently advanced as unexamined propositions about "the way things work," these deeply held articles of faith within the academy unwittingly mark its core values and priorities and shape public ...
Hitting the rankings jackpot.
Nov 01, 2008; ... Recently Samford University's communication's office was surprised by a call from the local newspaper. "Have you seen the latest rankings?" asked the reporter. We confessed that we hadn't. "Samford is ranked 27th in the nation in a report being released by Forbes magazine this month." The ...
The higher education funding disconnect: spending more, getting less.
Nov 01, 2008; ... The rich and famous are much in the news these days--colleges and universities that is, the ones with endowments in the hundreds of millions or more and whose run-up in assets has raised questions about their non-profit status from both state and federal lawmakers. The U.S. Senate Finance ...
Improving communication is everyone's responsibility.
Nov 01, 2008; ... In 2003, Terrence Martell, a finance professor at the City University of New York's Baruch College, encountered a classroom of 80 seniors who could navigate the complex intricacies of the futures markets and commodities trading. But when he asked them to write a report explaining to a ...
Templates galore: new approaches to public disclosure.
Nov 01, 2008; ... We in higher education are in a jam regarding our unwillingness to disclose information about our performance to the public. And it's our own fault. A few decades ago, colleges and universities began making extravagant claims about themselves in an effort to attract student applicants. In ...