Is your family just starting to think about visiting colleges? Maybe you are in the throes of the process, feeling stressed out and overwhelmed. Did we miss a deadline? Should we be looking in-state or out-of-state, big school or small school? And what is a ""FAFSA"" anyway?
American higher education is being torn apart. Institutions, curricula, courses, and faculty roles are being "unbundled"-broken into constituent parts in the name of efficiency and cost savings. As a result, the college learning experience is fragmented and incoherent, leaving graduates less and less equipped to confront the dire ......
In our current age of reform, there are countless ideas about how to ""fix"" higher education. But before we can reconceptualize the college experience, we need to remember why we have these institutions in the first place'and what we want from them.
In What's the Point of College?, historian Johann N. Neem offers a new way ......
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 ......
Stressed by increasing student demand for mental health services, campus counseling centers across the country are grappling with how best to deliver ethical, effective, and efficient service. Hampered by limited budgets, most centers find it deeply challenging to address growing college mental health service needs. Yet little conceptual ......
In the twenty-first century, universities worldwide have found themselves thrust into a great ""brain race"" as nations, both developed and developing, seek to enhance their place in the global knowledge economy. As the concept of the de-localized university'one that has radically expanded, perhaps even beyond national borders'grows, competing ......
College admissions'that is, admission to the school of your choice'has become incredibly competitive. Students and their families prepare from grade school onward to shape school ""careers"" that will give them a leg up in applying to selective colleges. But sterling academic performance, AP classes, high test scores, and sports and other ......
Colleges and universities are among the most cherished'and controversial'institutions in the United States. In this updated edition of A History of American Higher Education, John R. Thelin offers welcome perspective on the triumphs and crises of this highly influential sector in American life.
Academic freedom'crucial to the health of American higher education'is threatened on many fronts. In The Future of Academic Freedom, a leading scholar equips us to defend academic freedom by illuminating its meaning, the challenges it faces, and its relation to freedom of expression.
