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Graduation rates and reality
The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) recently released a report that states graduation rates are on the rise–13 of the 16 SREB state members increased. One of the states included is Maryland, which met or exceeded from 1996 t0 2006 the national graduation rate. I want to believe the report; however, personal practitioner experience indicates [...]
Getting to a million: Do the math
By Bill Tierney
If we accept President Obama’s challenge that we need to increase access to college dramatically by 2020, then we will need to add one million new students to the higher education system every year until 2020. How do we do that? The CSU and UC and cc systems are closing students out, not increasing student [...]
Change you can(‘t) believe in
By Bill Tierney
Last week’s op-ed in the Sacramento Bee created a predicted stir. Some of my for-profit colleagues disagreed with my portrayal of them as dragging their feet on regulation or increasing indebtedness of students. Many more of my CSU colleagues reacted with anger that I might suggest that the California State University System would/should/could be bought [...]
Sites to start your day
Like June, I use an aggregator to gather the blogs I read most. Every morning I visit Google Reader and hundreds of unread posts await, from Eduwonk to The New Yorker to AppleInsider to Boltes Actiones. Some I read every word. Some I scan. And some I just delete. Disposable information is great. As I [...]
Podcasting
This year, the Jewish New Year services were podcast from my mother’s synagogue. At first I was shocked. Doesn’t a key part of celebrating the holidays hinge on connecting with people — in person, that is? Isn’t a pilgrimage to an actual synagogue conducive to invoking the reverie and reflection called for by the holidays? [...]
Zoe Corwin’s site pix
Here a few sites I’ve been exploring lately: 1. The CLIC Network Technology has tremendous potential when it can take a worthwhile practice and expand its scope. The CLIC Network offers students an opportunity to receive college information tailored to their academic strengths and college plans. The site is also a resource for families, schools, [...]
Websites I visit…
By June Ahn
So this week, we’ve been asked to blog about the websites that we visit most often. Here’s my stab at it. First of all, I actually “visit” very few websites. This is because most individuals, myself included, use some form of RSS reader to organize my daily reading. For the as yet uninitiated, RSS stands [...]
Academic Writing
By Bill Tierney
The week-long blog post on CSU got reduced to 850 words and ran as an oped (Will CSU’s motto someday be: ‘I am a Phoenix’?) in the Sacramento Bee. I spent a year working with a panel of academics to determine the scientific evidence for what works with regard to increasing access to college. The [...]
My Professor and Me, Part II
Yesterday I discussed the current role of teaching and its impact on student / professor relationships at research universities. Today I discuss the future of graduate-level programs at research universities. The Future The future of the graduate-level university is one of destabilization and changing power dynamics. Two areas, privatization and technology, will guide change. Both [...]
My Professor and Me, Part I
Yesterday Bill provided a response to PhD Savvy’s blog about students demanding “timely interactions” with professors. They both discuss the role of teaching at a research university. I will address both of their blogs in three ways: First, the role of teaching at research universities today, second, the role of teaching at universities in the [...]
