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Bound, J., Lovenheim, M. and Turner, S. (2010) Increasing Time to Baccalaureate Degree in the United States Cambridge MA: National Bureau of Economic Research This paper answers two important questions: Is it taking students longer these days to graduate at the bachelor’s level? And if so, why? The answer: yes, more students today are [...] Jaschik, S. (2009) Breakthrough on Open Access Inside Higher Education, September 15 An article on a plan by five Ivy League universities to fund peer reviewed open access journals for publications by their own faculty. I’m still struggling to understand why these publications would not be free, if they are open access, and why [...] Adelman, C. (2009) The Spaces Between Numbers: Getting International Data on Higher Education Straight Washington DC: The Institute for Higher Education Policy A report that takes a close look at the way statistics on higher education systems are compiled, and the dangerous lack of consistency resulting in false conclusions being drawn from comparisons. See [...] Tuchman, G. (2009) Wannabe U: Inside the Corporate University Chicago: University of Chicago Press ‘Based on years of observation at a state school, Wannabe U tracks the dispiriting consequences of trading in traditional educational values for loyalty to the market’ – written by a professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut. For more [...] ‘While the open source movement has taken off in course management systems, with Moodle and Sakai as alternatives to the dominant Blackboard, the administrative side of the house has been almost entirely corporate……Last week, in a move that could lead to a shake-up of the industry, Colorado State University and San Joaquin [...] |
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