Learning
The future of higher (lifelong) education: For all
worldwide, a holistic view
Volumes one and three are particularly applicable, highlighting
demographic changes, globalization, and evolving learning styles.
(September 2005)
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New survey provides
mixed
results on university and college commitment to serve low-income
adults
Colleges and universities have made
considerable progress in providing programs, policies and services
to help low-income adult students succeed in higher education but
gaps still exist, according to a survey conducted by the American
Council on Education (ACE) and supported by a grant from Lumina
Foundation for Education. The survey report identifies six areas where
colleges and universities perform well and five areas where they can
improve. (May 2005)
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Trends in higher education: How will they
impact academic libraries?
The
author observes that libraries must adopt to the ways in which recent and
continuing technological advances are profoundly changing the way students
are taught and the ways they learn.
Librarians need to keep pace with technological developments, and commercial
internet developments in directing and helping students. (April 2005)
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Harvard (finally) gets a passport
After
a long tradition of ignoring the trend in higher education of increasing
opportunities for student study abroad, Harvard has finally decided to
embrace international education. (March 2005)
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A value-added education: BC’s business school dean aims to build its
program around ethics
This article
explores the added emphasis in values-based teaching brought to
Boston College’s Business School by its new dean, Andrew Boynton.
Boynton believes that emphasizing values in business school is
important in a day and age where mistrust of corporations has
grown. Boynton has received faculty support for his increased
emphasis on ethics and responsible leadership.
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Battling the past
Article discusses the
difficulties involved in assuring access to higher education in an
environment of decreased public funding and public support for colleges
and universities, in the context of the commitment made by the governor
of Michigan to increase public access to higher education in her state.
(Winter 2005)
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Can
there be societal trustees in America today?
Higher
education’s leaders need to make intentional efforts to develop new
trustees and foster trusteeship through decisions regarding who to
invite to speak on campus, to whom to award honorary degrees, and
what lives and issues are to be emphasized or included in the
university curriculum. The author also notes that tomorrow’s
societal trustees may look different than yesterdays. They may not
be educators or statesmen, and they may be groups rather than
individuals. (2005)
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Education for a
lifetime: Preserving and strengthening higher education
As part of the
Education for a Lifetime Initiative of Virginia’s Governor Mark Warner he is
calling for renewed focus in higher education for the 21st century. While
his reflections focus on public education the initiative presents a state
perspective which invariably will impact private education in the
Commonwealth of Virginia. (2005)
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When
worlds converge: The coming supernova of entertainment and
education
Interest in the newly-developed
interdisciplinary field of "edutainment"---where elements of
education and entertainment are combined---has resulted in a new
degree program at the Educational Technology Center (ETC) at
Carnegie Melon University. The ETC offers a two-year masters of
entertainment technology (MET) degree, in conjunction with Carnegie
Mellon’s College of Fine Arts and its School of Computer Science.
(2005)
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Who cares? How students view faculty and other adults in US higher
education
The study
sought to ascertain whether recent college graduates experienced
less caring relationships with faculty and other university
personnel than past students. (April 2004)
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Extending school-to-college programs to the community college
The results of three programs that have extended their scope from
high school through enrollment in a community college to help
"at-risk" students in their transition to college are discussed.
(Winter 2003)
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Teaching and learning
best practices and strategies: Trends in higher education
Higher education is undergoing tremendous
changes. Educators and administrators everywhere are reevaluating the role
of the mission of higher education and how best to serve both their host
communities and the students who have become customers. This change has been
fueled by technology’s impact on teaching and learning, the rise of
competition for students in the form of distance education and for-profit
universities, changing student demographics, and the evolving role of
community outreach. (2002)
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The future of liberal education and the hegemony of market values:
privilege, practicality, and citizenship
“In the best case scenario, liberal
education will be, as it always has been, about education of the
whole person, cultivation of multiple ways of knowing, promotion of
critical and creative thinking, development of skills for lifelong
learning. To retain its integrity, liberal education has to be
assessed as an undertaking with civic value, rather than as a
commodity with market value.” (Summer 2001)
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The demographic window of opportunity: Liberal
education in the new century
Short but insightful prediction of the role for liberal arts
education in 2015. (Winter 2001)
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The future compatible campus: Global education in the 21st century
A European’s prospective on changing
learning environments and future compatible campuses for a world of
technology and globalization. Includes an excellent bibliography of
works cited. (September 1997)
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Educational access and massification
To meet the challenge of
maintaining quality while increasing the availability of education
to an increasing variety and number of people, a three tiered
system is proposed, composed of an open tier, a second selective
tier and a third highly selective tier. (undated web article)
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Search for the ‘new university’: Changing
faculty
roles
Explores what students need to learn in order to be players in the
world at large; posits important characteristics of a
“learning-focused” university. (Undated web
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The
University Continuing Education Association
The University Continuing Education Association
(UCEA) is one of the U.S’s oldest college and university
associations. It provides national leadership in support of
policies that advance workforce and professional development.
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The Campus
Compact (student service learning)
Campus Compact is a national coalition of more than
950 college and university presidents-representing some 5 million
students-who are committed to fulfilling the civic purposes of higher
education, which promotes public
and community service. (undated website content)
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