Morning everyone. We’re pretty heavy on events in Africa and Latin America this week, and not from countries that are the usual suspects, either. Hop on for a trip through Dar es Salaam, San José, Jakarta, and Guatemala City! That’s it for this round of the Fifteen. See you again on May 15.
Every Christmas, this blog invites the University of Tennessee’s Robert Kelchen on the show to do his top 10 stories of the year in the United States. One story keeps coming up: who, in their right mind, would want to be a university president these days? What with the financial pressure, the relentless politics, both on campus and dealing with state and federal governments, it’s an absolutely thankless job. Well, today our guest is someone who maybe led the way
I want to draw everyone’s attention to an excellent new thesis on innovative universities from the Netherlands. It’s called Success Factors for Innovative Universities by Daryna (Dara) Melnyk, which I think many of you would find a useful read (some of you may remember Dara from when she joined the World of Higher Education podcast back here; you may also be familiar with her own webinar on innovative universities which you can find here). To be clear, Dara’s definition of
If you’ve been paying attention to US higher education for the last couple of weeks, you will no doubt have noted a report from Yale University on “Trust in Higher Education”, with much favorable and unfavorable commentary. But what does it really say? And does it make much sense, for Yale or higher education generally, either in the United States or elsewhere? So, one thing that is important to understand about this is that while it contains ten sections, it
The news from the United States these days, as far as higher education is concerned, sometimes seems uniformly bleak, but US higher education operates in an unbelievably decentralized environment. Not only are there differences across states, across the public-private divide, and to some extent across accreditation zones, but even within the federal system, there’s not necessarily a uniformity of approach, given three branches of government, and even within the executive sphere, different approaches from the major funders of education, including
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