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Margaret Spellings's Vision for Higher Education
What might the new head of a leading university system do as president? Johann Neem looks at her federal commission's report for clues, and is not heartened.
A Parade of Horribles?
Why do admissions professionals engage in certain practices that some people question? W. Kent Barnds provides some answers.
Solving Yesterday's Problems Constrains Tomorrow's Solutions
The onus is on policy makers to create new regulatory frameworks to support needed innovation in areas like competency-based education, writes Paul LeBlanc.
Crucial Higher Ed Issues: The Elevator Speech
Can you name the top six challenges facing higher education -- in two minutes? Carl Strikwerda asks.
Accreditation's Real Cost (and Value)
Recent studies to the contrary, most colleges and schools don't spend very much on process of ensuring students get the best education possible, write Belle S. Wheelan and Mark A. Elgart.
Paperless, Please
While it's possible today to conduct every state of the writing process without ever touching a piece of paper, to Scott McLemee, it sounds like a relentless hell of perfect efficiency.
Opinion
Moving the Goalposts in Graduate Education
Too many people are backing away from the difficult challenge of placing Ph.D. holders in tenure-track positions and toward a far simpler one: taking credit for positions that degree holders are already finding for themselves, Marc Bousquet argues.
Are Chinese Students Driving Educational Imperialism?
Chinese students are flooding into America to obtain their college degrees. But, Adele Barker asks, are they getting the education they have come here to receive?