21st Century Scholar

Here’s a Education Week op-ed that USC President Nikias and I wrote regarding the relationship between secondary and postsecondary education. Enjoy!

Thursday is TechDay Today’s blog is a digital etiquette primer on making a digital presentation in a conference or classroom setting. It’s ultimately about storage. These days, there are lots of options for porting files. Not all of them are suited to every digital situation. The digital storage faux paus There’s always one guy who [...]

by Lisa Garcia SummerTIME—CHEPA’s four-week intensive summer writing and college knowledge program for rising college freshmen—is in full swing. All 90 students meet with a CHEPA staff member, student, or campus volunteer to review their financial aid notification (FAN) letters. Most of our students are well prepared financially to transition to a two- or four-year [...]

David Bowie & Queen remind me to calm down—it’s SummerTIME I volunteer with this really cool program called SummerTIME run by the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis at USC. I work with the recently graduated high school seniors who will become college freshmen in just a few short weeks. The program helps them focuses [...]

What is Gainful Employment? Why Should Universities Care? by Mark DeFusco, Ph.D. Recently, for-profit colleges and universities have been rocked by allegations of impropriety and their valuations have plummeted in the wake of hearings and Qui Tam investigations. The fear has been that these for-profit institutions have taken advantage of uninformed consumers who flock to [...]

Last week, current doctoral students in Urban Education Policy at the Rossier School of Education traveled with faculty members Gib Hentschke and Bill Tierney to China and Singapore. Today, 21st Century Scholar finishes its series of blogs which highlights the preliminary research begun on this trip. For more information about the candidates, visit “Introducing our Ph.D. Students.” Lessons [...]

Last week, current doctoral students in Urban Education Policy at the Rossier School of Education traveled with faculty members Gib Hentschke and Bill Tierney to China and Singapore. This week 21st Century Scholar presents a series of blogs which highlights the preliminary research begun on this trip. For more information about the candidates, visit “Introducing our Ph.D. Students.” [...]

Last week, current doctoral students in Urban Education Policy at the Rossier School of Education traveled with faculty members Gib Hentschke and Bill Tierney to China and Singapore. This week 21st Century Scholar presents a series of blogs which highlights the preliminary research begun on this trip. For more information about the candidates, visit “Introducing our Ph.D. Students.” [...]

Last week, current doctoral students in Urban Education Policy at the Rossier School of Education traveled with faculty members Gib Hentschke and Bill Tierney to China and Singapore. This week 21st Century Scholar presents a series of blogs which highlights the preliminary research begun on this trip. For more information about the candidates, visit “Introducing our Ph.D. Students.” [...]

Part 5:  The Retirement Era of the Academic Life In this blog I examine the retirement years for academics and conclude the Academic Life series.  Today, I expand upon what awaits professors in the “academic afterlife”. My comments are based on deep conversations with several emeritus faculty.  I confess that the more I learned from [...]