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Higher Education Reform
The "Higher Education Reform" category is for websites devoted to questioning and changing established educational practices in colleges and universities. They may recommend, for example, changes in teaching methods, admissions, or administrative practices; improvements to textbooks, schedules, or curricula; reforms of campus life; and so on.
Sites in Higher Education Reform
Vermont Campus Compact
A higher education organization promoting greater institutional commitment to community service, service learning, and local partnerships
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
"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.
The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty of America's Campuses
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.
University Secrets: An Indictment of Higher Education
University Secrets is the full text of a book describing higher education's failure to educate students and its exploitive transfers of funds. It criticizes grades, SATs, tracking, and housing policies.
The Collegiate Way: Residential Colleges and Higher Education Reform
Reforming campus life by dividing large universities into small residential colleges like those at Oxford and Cambridge.
Pope Center for Higher Education Policy
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.
American Council of Alumni and Trustees
Committed to academic excellence and freedom of expression in higher education.
National Alliance for College Athletics Reform
Dedicated to insuring that big-time college sports do not compromise the educational missions of colleges and universities.
Tuition-free MIT
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.
Coalition for Higher Education Act Reform
Recommends revision of the U.S. Higher Education Act which denies or delays financial aid to students with drug offenses.
The Futures Project
Analysis of the role market forces play in higher education with the goal of developing and implementing thoughtful, market-oriented policy options.
A Student's-Eye View of Education's Fall and Decline
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.
Impact of Internet on Higher Education
Report examining major university presidents' perceptions of the impact of Internet on education & pressures that promote & inhibit.
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Reports from research grantees addressing issues in higher education reform.
Student Diversity Program at Cal State Fullerton
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.
The Learning Community Commons
The National Learning Communities Project provides cutting-edge academic learning community work in undergraduate education across the United States.
Re-envisioning the Ph.D. Project
Dedicated to fostering national/international discussion and initiatives that address the question: How can we re-envision the Ph.D. to meet the societal needs of the 21st Century?
Discourse on Shamefulness
An essay that argues for the traditional literary canon at the English Department in the University of Houston.
The Irascible Professor
Irreverent commentary on the state of education in America today, by Dr. Mark H. Shapiro and guest writers.
The National Academy for Academic Leadership
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.
University of Illinois College of Medicine Expose
A brief expose by a former medical student of the practices which occurred at the largest medical school in the Midwest in the 1990s.
Foundation Coalition
An NSF-sponsored initiative funding systemic reform in undergraduate engineering education at seven schools.
Rutgers After Lawrence: Reforming a Once-Great University
Faculty essay on the reforms needed at Rutgers University to strengthen academics and reduce the destructive impact of Division I athletics.
Student Loan Hell
Biblical argument for abolishing the ban on student loan bankruptcy discharge, as well as links to other student loan information sites.
UEdge
Providing case study analysis and informed opinions about higher education policy and works to assist students and the general public to understand key issues that affect them.
Higher Education Act: Reauthorization Status and Issues
A review of U.S. federal education policy, including the Higher Education Act, Pell Grants, student loans, teacher training, and distance education. |
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