Deadline Approaching! Register for the CFHE Meeting in Los Angeles

The following is a letter from Susan Misenhelder of the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education:   Dear CFHE friends, If you haven’t already registered, we hope you’re consulting with your organization about attending the next CFHE Gathering in Los Angeles (actually Manhattan Beach) on January 16-18, 2015. Please do plan to join us! The…

Upcoming CFHE Meeting in Los Angeles

An announcement from the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education [http://futureofhighered.org] _______________ We invite you to join us for the Eighth National Gathering of the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education: Building Common Ground Inside and Outside the Academy  HOSTED BY: California Faculty Association (CFA)  DATES: January 16-18, 2015  LOCATION: Manhattan Beach Marriott, Manhattan…

CFHE 7th National Gathering Focuses on Affordable, Quality Higher Education for All

On May 16-18, the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education’s 7th National Gathering drew nearly 100 faculty, student and organizational leaders to the Desmond Hotel in Albany, New York, where the organization held panel discussions and workshops surrounding a theme of “Building Alliances for Access, Equity and Quality.” The increasing problem of student debt was…

Great News Coverage of CFHE Video Awaiting Your Comments

Please go to these news links to post your comments!   Faculty Continue Anti-MOOC Offensive: Rhetoric Check Inside Higher Ed The faculty leaders behind the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education continued their barrage against massive open online courses on Tuesday, challenging the providers to come clean on “overblown, misleading or simply false” rhetoric.  5-14-14…

Executive Summary of the Third Paper in the CFHE Series on Online Education and MOOCs

FutureofHigherEd.org • #futureofHE • facebook.com/FutureofHigherEd   The “Promises” of Online Higher Education: Access  The “promise” that online learning will dramatically expand access to higher education is at the center of the recent push in the MOOC/Online movement.  This paper examines research that can help us answer a crucial question: do online courses provide meaningful access…

Executive Summary of the Second Paper in the CFHE Series on Online Education and MOOCs

FutureofHigherEd.org • #futureofHE • facebook.com/FutureofHigherEd _________________________ The “Promises” of Online Higher Education: Profits  With so much national focus on the “promises” of online higher education to expand access and to reduce costs, one truth about online higher education rarely mentioned is that it is big—Very Big—business.   Understanding and assessing developments in online higher education require…

Executive Summary of the First Paper in the CFHE Series on Online Education and MOOCs

FutureofHigherEd.org • #futureofHE • facebook.com/FutureofHigherEd _________________________ The “Promises” of Online Higher Education: Profits  With so much national focus on the “promises” of online higher education to expand access and to reduce costs, one truth about online higher education rarely mentioned is that it is big—Very Big—business.   Understanding and assessing developments in online higher education require…

A Forthcoming Series of Papers from CFHE: The ‘Promises’ of Online Higher Education: Overview

Promoters of MOOCs and online courses make big promises about the value of this latest trend in higher education. MOOCs and online courses, we are told, will both expand access to higher education and reduce its costs for just about every “stakeholder”–for institutions lacking the resources to provide needed courses, for governments hard-pressed to provide…

CFHE Letter in Support of the City College of San Francisco

This letter was sent by the Steering Committee of the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education to the leadership of the faculty bargaining unit at the City College of San Francisco after the regional accreditation agency announced that the college had not made sufficient progress toward correcting the deficiencies identified by the accreditation team…