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Higher Education Reform Education Reform Education
Higher Education Reform Education Reform Education
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- A review of U.S. federal education policy, including the Higher Education Act, Pell Grants, student loans, teacher training, and distance education.
- Irreverent commentary on the state of education in America today, by Dr. Mark H. Shapiro and guest writers.
- Providing case study analysis and informed opinions about higher education policy and works to assist students and the general public to understand key issues that affect them.
- Reports from research grantees addressing issues in higher education reform.
- An essay that argues for the traditional literary canon at the English Department in the University of Houston.
- A radical proposal arguing that schools such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which have many ties to wealthy corporations, should not charge their students tuition.
- Goals, activities, newsletter, membership info, and articles on current issues from SAFS, which seeks to uphold academic freedom and high standards against political correctness at universities in Canada.
- Explores why a more innovative and progressive approach to education is held back by an institutional mindset that is threatened by, and even hostile to, revolutionary changes.
- Conservative public policy organization publishing white papers and other reports on how to improve higher education. Global in interest, but having a special emphasis on North Carolina.
- Dedicated to insuring that big-time college sports do not compromise the educational missions of colleges and universities.
- Dedicated to fostering national/international discussion and initiatives that address the question: How can we re-envision the Ph.D. to meet the societal needs of the 21st Century?
- A brief expose by a former medical student of the practices which occurred at the largest medical school in the Midwest in the 1990s.
- Faculty essay on the reforms needed at Rutgers University to strengthen academics and reduce the destructive impact of Division I athletics.
- Report examining major university presidents' perceptions of the impact of Internet on education & pressures that promote & inhibit.
- Committed to academic excellence and freedom of expression in higher education.
- Analysis of the role market forces play in higher education with the goal of developing and implementing thoughtful, market-oriented policy options.
- Biblical argument for abolishing the ban on student loan bankruptcy discharge, as well as links to other student loan information sites.
- Reforming campus life by dividing large universities into small residential colleges like those at Oxford and Cambridge.
- The academy educates academic decision makers to be leaders institutional change that improves student learning. Administrators and faculty will develop the knowledge and skills to effect systemic institutional change.
- How university administrators, particularly in campus student affairs divisions, have abridged the civil liberties of students and faculty members, and what can be done to redress the problem.
- The National Learning Communities Project provides cutting-edge academic learning community work in undergraduate education across the United States.
- "FIRE is a nonprofit educational foundation devoted to free speech, individual liberty, religious freedom, the rights of conscience, legal equality, due process, and academic freedom" in American universities.
- The SDP is designed to address the retention of "At Risk" students. Using unconventional methods of intervention, SDP has demonstrated over 90% success at California State University, Fullerton.
- Recommends revision of the U.S. Higher Education Act which denies or delays financial aid to students with drug offenses.
- A higher education organization promoting greater institutional commitment to community service, service learning, and local partnerships
- University Secrets is the full text of a book describing higher education's failure to educate students and its exploitive transfers of funds. It criticizes grades, SATs, tracking, and housing policies.
- An NSF-sponsored initiative funding systemic reform in undergraduate engineering education at seven schools.
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