Open Directory - Society: Issues: Education: Education Reform: Higher Education Reform
See also: - Explores why a more innovative and progressive approach to education is held back by an institutional mindset that is threatened by, and even hostile to, revolutionary changes. - Committed to academic excellence and freedom of expression in higher education. - Recommends revision of the U.S. Higher Education Act which denies or delays financial aid to students with drug offenses. - Dedicated to commentary on the state of American academe. - An essay that argues for the traditional literary canon at the English Department in the University of Houston. - "FIRE is a nonprofit educational foundation devoted to free speech, individual liberty, religious freedom, the rights of conscience, legal equality, due process, and academic freedom" in American universities. - A review of U.S. federal education policy, including the Higher Education Act, Pell Grants, student loans, teacher training, and distance education. - Conservative public policy organization publishing white papers and other reports on how to improve higher education. Global in interest, but having a special emphasis on North Carolina. - Faculty essay on the reforms needed at Rutgers University to strengthen academics and reduce the destructive impact of Division I athletics. - Goals, activities, newsletter, membership info, and articles on current issues from SAFS, which seeks to uphold academic freedom and high standards against political correctness at universities in Canada. - The SDP is designed to address the retention of "At Risk" students. Using unconventional methods of intervention, SDP has demonstrated over 90% success at California State University, Fullerton. - Reforming campus life by dividing large universities into small residential colleges like those at Oxford and Cambridge. - Irreverent commentary on the state of education in America today, by Dr. Mark H. Shapiro and guest writers. - The academy educates academic decision makers to be leaders institutional change that improves student learning. Administrators and faculty will develop the knowledge and skills to effect systemic institutional change. - Reports from research grantees addressing issues in higher education reform. - How university administrators, particularly in campus student affairs divisions, have abridged the civil liberties of students and faculty members, and what can be done to redress the problem. - A radical proposal arguing that schools such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which have many ties to wealthy corporations, should not charge their students tuition. - A higher education organization promoting greater institutional commitment to community service, service learning, and local partnerships - Derek Bok, former president of Harvard, discusses the quality of American university education and how it can be significantly improved. (April 01, 2006) XML Feeds: - Dedicated to commentary on the state of American academe. [RSS]
