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“Whatever It Is, I’m Against It: Resistance to Change in Higher Education” with Brian Rosenberg

 Hello, I’m Alex Usher, and this is the World of Higher Education podcast. One paradox of higher education that holds more or less true around the world is that while universities are charged with inventing the future, pushing boundaries, and aspiring contrarian and sometimes radical ideas, they’re also extremely conservative when it comes to their own affairs. Change does not come naturally to them anywhere in the world. Today my guest is Brian Rosenberg, a former president of Macalester University

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January 18, 2024 1 Comment

Javier Milei and Argentinian Higher Education

One of the most striking global political stories of 2023 was the presidential election in Argentina, where a relative newcomer, Javier Milei, with a mixed set of right wing and libertarian views, was elected to the presidency with a relatively large margin in the second round of voting on the 19th of November. At one level, the defeat of the ruling Peronist Party was not surprising, given the country’s general state of economic malaise and inflation running at well over

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January 11, 2024 No Comments

Global Academic Excellence Initiatives

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

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December 15, 2023 No Comments

Top 10 Stories of 2023 in American Higher Education

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

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December 7, 2023 1 Comment

Post-Soviet Higher Education

In the immediate post-war period, the Soviet Union, despite the immense destruction that had been wreaked across its territory by the Nazi invasion of 1941-44, shocked the world with its rapid acquisition of what was then high technology, in particular with respect to the nuclear and space sectors. It also rose quickly ot have the world’s second largest university system, just behind the United States. Its prowess in education and Science provoked huge investments in higher education in science. But

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November 30, 2023 No Comments

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