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• Making college affordable

  
  growing changing learning creating — Authority: 419
  As Karl Kapp recently explored in The Higher Education Bubble Continues to Grow , most colleges are mimicking Wall Streets flawed strategy of self-serving financial schemes. Colleges cannot slow the runaway inflation which results in soaring costs, declining value and under-served students. These colleges are ...
  11 hours ago

• Speaking of Good Causes

  
  Catholic and Enjoying It! — Authority: 619
  Belmont Abbey College is doing its bit to resist the Culture of Death. They could use your support.
  14 hours ago

• IHEs Should Expect Less Revenue Through 2010

  
  The Kept-Up Academic Librarian — Authority: 436
  While parents may be depressed by the news that 58 colleges now charge more than $50,000 a year, the news isn’t much better for the colleges themselves. A survey by Moody’s, the rating agency, finds that nearly 30 percent of private colleges that responded are expecting a decline in net revenue from tuition and ...
  15 hours ago

• Conferences: Share with me, don’t talk at me

  
  The PR Practitioner — Authority: 99
  Last week I attended the AACSB Building B-School Symposium in Scottsdale, Arizona. This conference was different than most. Besides it being exclusively for higher education communicators and development folks (the people who ask for donations), 60% of it was simply sharing best practices. Each participant was ...
  1 day ago

• Student Protest Symposium in Zagreb

  
  Student Activism — Authority: 423
  I’ll be flying to Croatia in a few days for a three-day symposium on contemporary student activism. The meeting, “Student Protests of 2009: Methods, Context, and Implications,” (or, in the original Croatian, Studentski Prosvjedi 2009: Metode, Kontekst, I Implikacije ) is being sponsored by the Sociology ...
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• The Ph.D. problem

  
  Library Juice — Authority: 116
  Welcome support for intellectuals who are making the choice NOT to go for a Ph.D.: The Ph.D. Problem: On the professionalization of faculty life, doctoral training, and the academy’s self-renewal , by Louis Menand, Harvard Magazine , November-December 2009.
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• Devesh Kapur on the attitude of Indian business towards education

  
  nanopolitan — Authority: 132
  He is appalled by Indian business leaders attitude towards higher education (in spite of its importance to their business). His list of complaints is long; heres a sample: The commitment of Indian business to philanthropy in higher education was strong prior to independence and has dwindled ever since. ...
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• Links ...

  
  nanopolitan — Authority: 132
  From Amanda Goodalls Socrates in the Boardroom : Why Research Universities Should be Led by Top Scholars ( pdf of Chapter 1 ): The reasons why presidents should be able scholars are fourfold: Scholars are more credible leaders. A president who is a researcher will gain greater respect from academic ...
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• The Shifting Landscape: Enrollments and Quality Learning in Higher Ed

  
  21st Century Teaching and Learning — Authority: 106
  This post is in response to a comment left on my last post, "Online Learning: Pay it Forward" by Barry. Barry, I found your comment intriguing in many ways and it touched on a lot of ideas that have been on my mind lately about higher ed: competition in higher ed enrollments, the need for quality learning across the ...
  2 days ago

• Best Review Ever

  
  Three Percent - Article — Authority: 501
  From Okla Elliott’s review of Season of Ash in Inside Higher Ed : Jorge Volpi’s Season of Ash is the kind of novel that reminds me why I read novels in the first place, but it’s also the kind that makes me wonder why I bother to write. Before the end of this review, I am going to try to convince you ...
  4 days ago

• The Mobile Horizon

  
  grundyhome.com — Authority: 106
  This week I presented to our team at AgencyND about Mobile – what’s the deal and what’s coming. I call this the Mobile Horizon, as a nod to the Horizon Report which aims to inform higher education about the future technologies and their implications. Mobile is all the rage, and for good reason. View the ...
  4 days ago

• Austrian Student Protests Spread to Germany

  
  Student Activism — Authority: 423
  In the last two days German students have launched lecture hall occupations at the Universities of Heidelberg, Munster, and Potsdam in solidarity with the Austrian student protests that have been going on for the last two weeks. The German student demonstrators’ website can be found here . (A Google translation ...
  5 days ago

• Blackboard is Buzzing at EDUCAUSE

  
  Blackboard Blogs — Authority: 112
  EDUCAUSE officially kicked-off its national conference yesterday in Denver, and we’ve seen some great enthusiasm from clients and the community. The booth (#423) was packed with attendees who wanted to hear more about the newest platform, Blackboard Mobile .   Attendees were very excited about the addition of ...
  5 days ago

• post-halloween, post- D.S.T. seminar

  
  b l o g o s — Authority: 110
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  6 days ago

• A Follow-Up

  
  Curator's Corner — Authority: 434
  When responding yesterday to Rudolph Weingartners column on the deaccessioning at the Rose Museum, we hadnt yet seen James Stewards response in Inside Higher Ed , which is far more eloquent than our dashed off prose and contains some additional excellent points about the value of university museums. He mentions ...
  6 days ago

• Degree Disaster Behind The Great Wall

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 741
  Based on my regular reading on education, but not China specifically, I know that the world’s most populous nation has had a lot of trouble finding jobs for its throngs of recent college graduates. I wrote a bit about that yesterday, pointing out that the important higher education lesson from China is that ...
  6 days ago

• Yale Students Death: Autopsy Results Will Take Weeks

  
  New Haven Independent — Authority: 633
  The state medical examiner has not yet determined the cause of Yale student Andre Narcisses death.
  6 days ago

• History Fun Fact: Ayn Rand Liked Ed Tax Credits

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 741
  Many thanks to Lisa Snell at Reason for bringing this interesting historical fun fact from 1973 to light: Ayn Rand was a fan of education tax credits : In the face of such evidence, one would expect the government’s performance in the field of education to be questioned, at the least, [but] the growing ...
  6 days ago

• Management wisdom from Harvard President

  
  nanopolitan — Authority: 132
  In this interview , Prof. Drew Gilpin Faust addresses lots of questions on management and leadership. Heres the section where she talks about the importance of communication: There’s one alum who was an expert in turnarounds, and so I asked him, “What should I do?” He said, “One lesson about change in any ...
  6 days ago

• Links ...

  
  nanopolitan — Authority: 132
  Pallavi Singh in Mint : UGC under fire for too many deemed tags . Uttara Choudhury in DNA : US universities have eye on India . IITs set up committee for incentive scheme for faculty An update on the legal troubles of Magadh Universitys vice-chancellor [ previously ]. Video of HRD Minister Kapil ...
  6 days ago

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