John Moravec and Ai Takeuchi’s presentation “The role of academic professionals in the university of the future: a comparative pilot study” prepared for the 49th annual Comparative and International Education Society meeting at Stanford University is available for download here. Handouts, containing key survey findings and scenarios for the futures of higher education in the [...]
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Liberal arts recruitment strategy: drop ACT/SAT requirements
2/21/2005
Katherine Lindsay writes: My alma mater, Lawrence University, will stop requiring ACT/SAT scores as part of the undergraduate admission process in 2006. This is, in part, a reaction to the “overemphasis of testing” by the Bush administration. Several other liberal arts colleges are following suit. I wonder how moves by small liberal arts colleges like [...]
Are colleges “endangered?”
2/19/2005
Article link: Colleges: an endangered species? Andrew Delbanco ponders in the New York Review of Books (March 10, 2005) what a college education means today: “for the relatively few students who still attend a traditional liberal arts college—whether part of, or independent from, a university—what do they get when they get there?“ Read the entire [...]
IOL: Improving the accessibility of tertiary education in South Africa
12/3/2004
Article link: Ackerman launches academy for entrepreneurs A new University of Capetown Graduate School of Business academy offers school dropouts a second chance at education. “Known as the Raymond Ackerman Academy of Entrepreneurial Development, the academy will focus on developing business skills and life skills in equal measure among young people between the ages of [...]
The university of the future and the future of universities
12/1/2004
Article Link: The university of the future and the future of universities Rick Reis at Stanford’s Center for Teaching and Learning, posted excerpts from Sir John Daniel’s keynote address at the Improving University Learning and Teaching 25th International Conference in Frankfurt, Germany. Sir Daniel previously served as Vice-Chancellor at Open University. Though the text is [...]
Daily Champion: Improving engineering education policy in West Africa
11/28/2004
Article link: Issues in Engineering And Technology Education Cut-and-pasted from the article’s abstract: University of Lagos (UNILAG) lecturers, Prof. S. A. Balogun and Dr. D. E. Esezobor in this piece from African Regional Conference on Engineering Education (ARCEE) examine the factors affecting the quality of engineering education at the tertiary level and ways by which [...]
Crisis? What crisis?
11/26/2004
Enders, J. (1999). Crisis? What crisis? The academic professions in the “knowledge” society. Higher Education, 38(1), 71-81. Enders addresses the uncertainty of academic professions at universities in a future, knowledge-based society. The changing role and nature of universities in a knowledge-based society will cause fragmentation and differentiation among the professoriate to proliferate as new concepts [...]
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