Articles on Higher Education and Accreditation
All articles are in portable document format (pdf).
Article sources include: Inside Higher Education (insidehighered.com), The Chronicle of Higher Education (chronicle.com) and The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Winter 2019
- Reviving Trust in Higher Education, One Innovative College at a Time
- Cal State system sees record increases in graduation rates
- Online Enrollments Grow, and Share of Overall Enrollment Grows Faster
- APLU enlists 130 universities in collaboration on completion and equity gaps
- Is the ‘Trump Effect’ Scaring Away Prospective International Students?
- Survey Finds Increasing Interest in Skills-based Hiring, Online Credentials and Prehire Assessments
Fall 2018
- What Factors Hold Back the Careers of Women and Faculty of Color? Columbia U. Went Looking for Answers
- Betsy DeVos is failing an entire generation of students
- Harvard Is Challenged on Whether Socioeconomic Status Should Replace Race as Admissions Factor
- Harvard Admissions Officials Are Grilled on How They Use Race in Admissions
- Could Diversity Survive a Harvard Loss?
- At Elite Colleges, Racial Diversity Requires Affirmative Action
- Less Accessible, Less Affordable
Summer 2018
- Hiring a Diversity Officer Is Only the First Step. Here Are the Next 7.
- The Minority-Serving-College Mobility Bump
- Defending Affirmative Action
- States Struggle to Close Degree-Attainment Gaps
- Free-Market Principles Should Guide Accreditation Reform in the Higher Education Act.
- Feds Plan Accreditation Experimentation
- How Disruption Can Contribute to the Future Success of Accreditation
- RTPI-accredited courses see 8% increase in students worldwide
- How Much ‘Engaged Learning’ Can You Get for $20.5 Million?
Spring 2018
- Accreditors Must Stop Letting Failing Colleges Off the Hook
- How For-Profit Universities’ Conversion To Nonprofits Will Up-End Higher Education
- How Higher Ed Became a Partisan Wedge Issue
- A Federal Panel Tries to Regulate Accreditation. But Is Anyone Paying Attention?
- This Is What Georgia Tech Thinks College Will Look Like in 2040
- In Devastated Puerto Rico, Universities Get Just a Fraction of Storm Aid
Winter 2018
- The Fight to Rebuild a Ravaged University
- The Hope and Hype of the Academic Innovation Center
- An Insider’s Take on Assessment: It May Be Worse Than You Thought
- Anemic’ State Funding Growth
- More Evidence of a Drop in International Grad School Enrollment
- Many State Flagship Universities Leave Black And Latino Students Behind
- Collaborating on Completion
- Valuing Learning, Wherever It Occurs
- Overconfident Students, Dubious Employers
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