Author: Alex Usher

Hello. And welcome to the World of Higher Education Podcast. Higher Education varies a lot from one country to another, not just in its sophistication and level of support, but more fundamentally in terms of its aims and missions. One of the extraordinary things about the period from about 1995 to 2015 was that much of the world actually did start to converge on a common mission for higher education – and that was the creation and diffusion of new

Hi.  I’m Alex Usher and this is the World of Higher Education podcast. We’re going to mix up the format a little for this podcast. Joining me today is Robert Kelchen, professor and head of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and author of the genuinely excellent book Higher Education Accountability from Johns Hopkins Press. In my view, Robert is among the sharpest eyes on the American higher education scene, someone who is always worth listening to.  In