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Lederman, D. (2009) The business of higher education Inside Higher Education, December 2 An interview with the authors of a new book: Knapp, J. and Siegel, D. (2009) The Business of Higher Education Santa Barbara CA: Praeger The book appears to raise some important issues about cost-effectiveness and what lessons may (or may not) be learned from business. [...]
Lederman, D. (2009) Catching Up to Canada Inside Higher Education, November 6 An interesting article discussing the different participation and graduation rates between Canada and the USA. Don’t be fooled by the article’s title; it is much more complicated than the US catching up. One factor that [...] Lederman, D. (2009) The Ever-expanding University of Phoenix Inside Higher Education, September 28 The Apollo Group, reported its fourth quarter and annual earnings Tuesday. It announced that the university’s enrollment of degree-seeking students grew to 443,000 as of August 2009, up 22 percent from 362,000 in August 2008. This makes it larger than the whole of [...] Lederman, D. (2009) Aggressive Plan for State Data Systems Inside Higher Education, September 28 This article discusses moves by the U.S. Congress and Senate to develop measures of performance for post-secondary education. The goal is to attack the problem of low completion rates and under-representation of students from low income families (although it varies widely from [...] Zemsky, R. (2009) Making Reform Work: The Case for Transforming American Higher Education Chapel Hill NC: Rutgers University Press Zemsky says that this is the book the Spellings Commission should have written but didn’t. It doesn’t seem to have a lot to say specifically about e-learning or the impact of information technology on the university, but [...] |
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