The New York Times has run a follow-up to its investigative report on the business practices of Axact, a Pakistani corporation that has advertised itself as the “largest software exporter” in the country but that has generated millions in annual revenues by selling diplomas and degrees from several hundred elite-sounding secondary schools and postsecondary institutions…
About a week ago, the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus blog included a short post by Casey Fabris titled “A MOOC Hopes to Sink Its Teeth Into a New Audience: TV Fans.” The post focuses on a four-week MOOC based on the FX television series The Strain, which follows the spread of a disease with the…
In a recent op-ed published in the New York Times, Joe Nocera examines the increasing tension between the priorities of faculty and of alumni donors who want to create a nationally prominent athletics program at Rutgers University. Here are several paragraphs from the middle of the column, which is titled, “At Rutgers, It’s Books vs.…
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has released a new report titled Years of Cuts Threaten to Put College Out of Reach for More Students. Prepared by Michael Mitchell and Michael Leachman, the report shows that the decline in state support for public colleges and universities was exacerbated by the Great Recession of 2008,…
The Huffington Post has just published “One Venn Diagram That Every College Graduate Should Give a Good Long Look”: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/14/college-graduate-venn-diagram_n_7286722.html. It provides a humorous look at the sometimes difficult transition from the quasi-adulthood of one’s college years to full adulthood in the much more demanding workaday world. Although the Venn Diagram is humorous and undoubtedly…
Previous Posts in This Series: The Institutions on the Department of Education’s Financial Watch List: Part 1: https://academeblog.org/2015/05/07/the-institutions-on-the-department-of-educations-financial-watch-list-part-1/ The Institutions on the Department of Education’s Financial Watch List: Part 2: https://academeblog.org/2015/05/08/the-institutions-on-the-department-of-educations-financial-watch-list-part-2/ The Institutions on the Department of Education’s Financial Watch List: Part 3: https://academeblog.org/2015/05/11/the-institutions-on-the-department-of-educations-financial-watch-list-part-3/ The Institutions on the Department of Education’s…
On May 8, 2015, Jeffrey Sparshott’s article “Congratulations, Class of 2015. You Are the Most Indebted Ever {For Now)” was published in the Wall Street Journal [http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/05/08/congratulations-class-of-2015-youre-the-most-indebted-ever-for-now/]. The article draws on a report produced by Edvisors [https://www.edvisors.com/], a website that provides a broad variety of resources on financial aid, including loans, for prospective and current…
Swarthout, Glendon. The Shootist. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975. Glendon Swartout’s achievement has been recognized with a number of prestigious awards: the Theatre Guild Playwriting Award in 1947; the Hopwood Award in Fiction in 1948; the O. Henry Prize for the Short Story in 1960; the National Society of Arts and Letters Gold Medal…
Mary Ellen Mazey, the President of Bowling Green State University, recently contributed an op-ed to the Toledo Blade. The op-ed is titled “Affordable Higher Education Is Key to Ohio’s Future.” In the op-ed, President Mazey addresses several realities that have been repeatedly highlighted over the last quarter century—that is, for as long as I have…