This Ben Wildavsky article for The New York Academy of Sciences Magazine, an excerpt from his book The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities are Reshaping the World, explores both sides of the academic globalization debate and provides insight into whether increased global competition for the United States academic world is something to be feared [...]
When Princeton University announced in 2001 that it would replace all student loans with grants, a chain reaction was set in action, slowly but surely. Students weren’t so much being enticed to choose Princeton—an attractive enough option on its own—as they were being lured away from Princeton’s nearest competitors.
It wasn’t just that Princeton had found [...]
Two Lipman Hearne clients made the news as members of Mother Jones magazine’s 2010 MoJo Mini College Guide. According to Kiera Butler, the University of Minnesota, Morris and Kettering University are both among “ten cool schools that will blow your mind, not your budget.”
The University of Minnesota, Morris is cited for having “academic chops and [...]
There is a big hubbub right now on an Inside Higher Ed piece by Dennis Jones and Jane Wellman called “Bucking Conventional Wisdom on College Costs.” Judging by the commentary, they have clearly gored a small herd of sacred cows by attempting to debunk the conventional wisdom that budgets will (should) only rise, that spending [...]
A New York Times Op-Ed piece by David Brooks cites Lumina Foundation efforts to track student outcomes as being a key element in education reform. Brooks also cites increases in community college attendance as being a step in the right direction when it comes to restoring our “human capital advantage.”
Lumina Foundation for Education is [...]
A recent posting on The Chronicle of Higher Education blogsite worries, “Is it possible that higher education might be the next bubble to burst (pdf)?” Now, I’ve never been one to denigrate hyperbole – believing it, in fact, to be the most outstanding rhetorical device that has ever been employed!!! – but this strikes me [...]
Education Secretary Arne Duncan was handed the proverbial golden ticket in President Obama’s stimulus package, and the good times for the education world should continue into the next decade if the President’s education priorities survive the 2010 budget process. Secretary Duncan has been given a huge – even by Washington standards – increase in the [...]