Canary in the College?
While it may just be a matter of coincidental timing, the recent announcements in the last week of retrenchments at both Bridgepoint Education Inc. and Kaplan Education (two of the largest for-profit higher education institutions) may be an augur of what is to come for the for-profit sector, at least for the near future. Interestingly enough, it [...]
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They Just Don’t Get It
Sen. Tom Harkin has issued his final report on for-profit higher education, a book-length indictment of one-tenth of American higher education, the for-profit sector. Obviously I have not had an opportunity yet to read the full report (I’ve been traveling for the past week or so), but from news reports alone, I see huge problems [...]
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Weekly reCCAP: 07/13/12
Libby A. Nelson At a roundtable convened by the Science Coalition, an organization of universities dedicated to preserving cialis online federal funding for basic research, and the Association of American Universities, the officers discussed the future of pure and applied research — and where the money will come from to pursue both. Paul Fain Public [...]
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CCAP in the News
Recently in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, CCAP Senior Fellow Ronald L. Trowbridge, discussed recent statistics showing that the Texas leg online viagra uk islature is neglecting its growing number of low-income and minority students in higher education poligy A study by the American Enterprise Institute reveals class warfare. Published in October 2011, the study, “Cheap [...]
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Daily reCCAP: 04/23/12
Paul Fain Technical colleges in Texas are poised to up the ante on performance-based state funding, link buy tadalafil online ing 45 percent of their operating budget to the employment rates and salaries of alumni. Inside Higher Ed A report by Education Sector shows how rapidly the federal government has increased its spending on tax [...]
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CCAP in the News: Study Abroad and Alternatives to College
Richard Vedder had an essay for Bloomberg on college study abroad programs. As he puts it: Falling transportation and communication costs have greatly expanded international economic and cultural interchanges, and it’s hard to be against young Americans’ exposure to non-U.S. culture. My wife and I have led student educational tours or study programs in Europe frequently [...]
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Revising Teacher Education: Meaningful Change or Window Dressing?
One of the scandals about American higher education is its complicity in creating the mediocrity in our K-12 schools. American primary and secondary education students do so-so at best in standardized international testings. They have a lot of self esteem but know relatively little. Large numbers are functionally illiterate or semiliterate after a dozen or [...]
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Princeton and Urbana Universities: A Tale of Two Schools
I am writing this missive from the campus of Urbana University, a liberal-arts college founded in 1850 that serves an audience of generally first-generation students mostly from nearby its Urbana, Ohio campus. A goodly proportion of those enrolled (41 percent of first-year students) are on Pell Grants. I find the students vastly different than those [...]
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Do Developments in Chile Presage What Is to Come in the US?
My CCAP colleague Michael Koslen alerted me to this blog post at InsideHigherEd by Andrés Bernasconi: Chile’s Ministry of Education has launched a web portal offering with unprecedented detail employment and earnings data to prospective applicants to higher education… that lists hundreds of degree programs, professional and technical, from Medicine to Auto Mechanic, displaying for [...]
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Daily reCCAP: 02/06/12
Allen W. Wilhite and Eric A. Fong Despite their shortcomings, impact factors continue to be a primary means by which academics “quantify the quality of science.” One side effect of impact factors is the incentive they create for editors to coerce authors to add citations to their journal. Coercive self-citation does not refer to the [...]
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