http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/02/03/federal-probe-raises-new-questions-discrimination-against-asian-american-applicants
Monday, February 6, 2012
Innovative Educators Webinar: How to Involve Faculty in Recruitment & Retention Efforts
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University Business: As Colleges Obsess Over Rankings, Students Shrug
When US News & World Report debuted its list of "America's Best Colleges" nearly 30 years ago, the magazine hoped its college rankings would be a game-changer for students and families. But arguably, they've had a much bigger effect on colleges themselves.
Yes, students and families still buy the guide and its less famous competitors by the hundreds of thousands, and still care about a college's reputation. But it isn't students who obsess over every incremental shift on the rankings scoreboard, and who regularly embarrass themselves in the process.
It's colleges.
It's colleges that have spent billions on financial aid for high-scoring students who don't actually need the money, motivated at least partly by the quest for rankings glory.
It was a college, Baylor University, that paid students it had already accepted to retake the SAT exam in a transparent ploy to boost the average scores it could report. It's colleges that have awarded bonuses to presidents who lift their school a few slots.
It's colleges.
It's colleges that have spent billions on financial aid for high-scoring students who don't actually need the money, motivated at least partly by the quest for rankings glory.
It was a college, Baylor University, that paid students it had already accepted to retake the SAT exam in a transparent ploy to boost the average scores it could report. It's colleges that have awarded bonuses to presidents who lift their school a few slots.
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Monday, February 6, 2012
University Business: Reining In College Tuition (Opinon)
Higher education institutions are predictably cool to President Obama’s proposal to shift federal aid away from colleges that fail to control rising tuition. Even though the details of his plan, which would require Congressional approval, will not be fleshed out until later this month, the idea behind it is sound.
The federal government must do more to rein in tuition costs at the public colleges that educate more than 70 percent of the nation’s students. By one estimate, the cost of four-year public college tuition has tripled since the 1980s, outpacing both inflation and family income. The increase in the tuition burden is largely caused by declining state support for higher education in the past three decades. In both good times and bad, state governments have pushed more of the costs onto students, forcing many to take out big loans or be priced out of once affordable public colleges at a time when a college education is critical in the new economy.
While financial aid is available to some low-income students, many are driven away by tuition sticker shock. At the same time, many colleges have failed to find more cost-effective ways to deliver education and get the average student to graduation in four years. President Obama was on the mark when he said that this needs to change.
A smart analysis by State Higher Education Executive Officers, a nonprofit group, shows clearly what has happened in public higher education since 1985. In Michigan, for example, the net tuition paid per student (after financial aid) rose from about $3,900 in 1985 to nearly $9,000 in 2010, in inflation adjusted dollars. A similar jump occurred in Pennsylvania, where net tuition per student has gone from about $4,500 in 1985 to more than $8,800 in 2010. In response, students have turned to loans. In the last decade, federal college loan debt has more than doubled from $41 billion to $103 billion, according to the College Board.
Monday, February 6, 2012
EDUCAUSE: Online Conference = Professional Development + Convenience
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Grambling State University’s LYCEUM SERIES Presents Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Thursday February 9, 2012 3:00 p.m.
T. H. Harris Auditorium
Grambling State University
Grambling, Louisiana
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University
Professor at Harvard University, as well as director of the W.E.B. Du Bois
Institute for African and African American Research. He is the author most
recently of Black in Latin America (New York University Press, 2011) and Faces
of America (New York University Press, 2010), which expand on his critically
acclaimed PBS documentaries.
Professor Gates is
Editor-in-Chief of TheRoot.com, a daily online magazine focusing on issues of interest
to the African American community and written from an African American
perspective.
Professor Gates has received 51 honorary degrees, as well as a
MacArthur Foundation “Genius Award.” In addition, Professor Gates was named one
of Time magazine’s “25 Most Influential Americans” in 1997, and one of Ebony
magazine’s “100 Most Influential Black Americans” in 2005, and he was selected
for Ebony’s “Power 150″ list for 2009 and its “Power 100″ list for 2010. He
received a National Humanities Medal in 1998, and in 1999 was elected to the
American Academy of Arts and Letters.
In 2006, he was inducted into the Sons of the American
Revolution after tracing his lineage back to John Redman, a Free Negro who
fought in the Revolutionary War.
NASA Faculty Fellowship Opportunity Apply Now!
Interested DU faculty please have all supporting documents
submitted to the Office of Academic Affairs by March 12, 2012.
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Converge Special Report Update: Campus Infrastructure Webinar
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Southern Education Foundation Co-Sponsors Important Online Conversation among MSIs
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