How Text Messaging and Other Behavioral Strategies Can Improve Education
For decades schools have invested substantial resources in boosting educational outcomes for disadvantaged students, but those investments have not always generated positive outcomes. Although many communities have expanded school choice, for example, families often choose to keep their children in failing schools. And while the federal government ......
The outlook for the future of colleges and universities is uncertain. Financial stresses, changing student populations, and rapidly developing technologies all pose significant challenges to the nation's colleges and universities. In Academia Next, futurist and higher education expert Bryan Alexander addresses these ......
As colleges and universities become more entrepreneurial in a post-industrial economy, they focus on knowledge less as a public good than as a commodity to be capitalized on in profit-oriented activities. In Academic Capitalism and the New Economy, higher education scholars Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades detail the aggressive engagement of U.S. ......
Today, nearly every aspect of higher education including student recruitment, classroom instruction, faculty research, administrative governance, and the control of intellectual property is embedded in a political economy with links to the market and the state. Academic capitalism offers a powerful framework for understanding this relationship. ......
Today, nearly every aspect of higher educationincluding student recruitment, classroom instruction, faculty research, administrative governance, and the control of intellectual propertyis embedded in a political economy with links to the market and the state. Academic capitalism offers a powerful framework for understanding this relationship. ......
The Rise of Industry Logic in Public Higher Education
American public higher education is in crisis. After decades of public scrutiny over affordability, access, and quality, indictments of the institution as a whole abound. Campus leaders and faculty report a loss of public respect resulting from their alleged unresponsiveness to demands for change. But is this loss of confidence warranted? And ......
Essays and Interviews on Higher Education and the Humanities
This book argues that the core content of academic freedom-the principle of supporting and extending open intellectual enquiry-is essential to realizing the full public value of higher education. John Higgins emphasizes the central role that the humanities, and the particular forms of argument and analysis they embody, bring to this task.
This book is a call to transform colleges and universities to meet the academic and student experience needs of New Majority students, who are older, likely to swirl among institutions, and balance significant adult responsibilities. We also call on adult educators to become advocates, allies, and resources for needed reforms.
This book is a call to transform colleges and universities to meet the academic and student experience needs of New Majority students, who are older, likely to swirl among institutions, and balance significant adult responsibilities. We also call on adult educators to become advocates, allies, and resources for needed reforms.
