Wednesday, November 6, 2013 California State University, Dominguez Hills Good afternoon. My name is Vivian Price, and I am speaking today representing the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education. We thank the President and the Department of Education for holding these hearings where such a variety of voices can be heard. Our organization, C-F-H-E,…
Wednesday, November 6, 2013 California State University, Dominguez Hills Good Morning: Thank you for holding this public forum. We are honored to have you on our campus. My name is Kate Fawver and I am Professor and Chair of the Department of History here at CSU Dominguez Hills. I come before you today speaking as…
The fight continues to protect the City College of San Francisco (CCSF) — with about 80,000 students, the largest community college in California — from losing its accreditation. (For background see What Happened at City College of San Francisco). Yesterday, November 7, at a public forum featuring two members of the U.S. Congress, two state…
These are my alternatives to the list created by Melia Robinson and Melissa Stanger for Business Insider. I am excluding works of nonfiction and listing my top three choices for each state. Titles included in the list compiled by Robinson and Stanger are indicated in boldface. South Dakota The Golden Bowl Frederick Manfred Skins…
By Maria Peluso This is the eigth and last in a series of Academe Blog guest posts arranged by the AAUP Committee on Contingency and the Profession in celebration of Campus Equity Week. For information on and resources for CEW, see the national website at http://www.campusequityweek.org/2013/. The Concordia University Part-time Faculty Association (CUPFA) has been…
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…
By David Kociemba This is the seventh in a series of Academe Blog guest posts arranged by the AAUP Committee on Contingency and the Profession in celebration of Campus Equity Week. For information on and resources for CEW, see the national website at http://www.campusequityweek.org/2013/. There’s a new benefit worth tens of thousands of dollars that…
For many who think and write about American higher education, the quality of the industry-wide conversation on how best to accommodate change seems increasingly defensive. It often appears that the strongest defense is a weak regurgitation of “look at me . . . look at me” rather than a deeper understanding of how pieces fit…
This past week I posted about the impression of serious conflicts of interest in the personal relationships and financial dealings of Ohio Governor John Kasich, Ohio State President Emeritus Gordon Gee, and former JobsOhio director and venture capitalist Mark Kvame, as well as others in their circle. At the center of the current controversy is…
These are my alternatives to the list created by Melia Robinson and Melissa Stanger for Business Insider. I am excluding works of nonfiction and listing my top three choices for each state. Titles included in the list compiled by Robinson and Stanger are indicated in boldface. New Mexico The Milagro Beanfield War John Nichols The…