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HBS Working Knowledge September 1, 2003 Mallory Stark |
The Business of Education: An Interview with Derek Bok Is higher education becoming too chummy with the private sector? What can each learn from the other? An interview with the former Harvard President. Plus: Book excerpt. |
CAUSE/EFFECT Vol 22 Num 2 1999 Paul J. Kobulnicky |
Critical Factors in Information Technology Planning for the Academy ...The analysis in this article is derived from an academic information technology planning process undertaken at the University of Connecticut.... |
Information Today May 7, 2012 |
MIT and Harvard Launch a `Revolution in Education' Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) joined forces to offer free online courses in a project aimed at attracting millions of online learners around the world. |
CAUSE/EFFECT Vol 22 Num 4 1999 Michael Eleey and Lynn Oppenheim |
Retaining IT Staff through Effective Institutional Planning and Management With today's shortage of information technology professionals in the workforce, it is imperative that colleges and universities limit IT staff turnover. One of the keys to retention is job satisfaction within a well-managed organization... |
CRM December 2010 Koa Beck |
Schools and Social Media: Pass or Flail The lessons universities are learning about emerging technologies. |
Reason May 2001 Loren Lomasky |
Talking the Talk Have universities lost sight of why they exist? |
T.H.E. Journal August 2003 Gaylord & Tolliver |
Sharing E-Learning Services: Former Rivals Improve Education While Stretching Dollars Technology makes strange bedfellows. Archrivals on the football field and steely competitors for Ohio's best students, we at The University of Akron and Kent State University are joining forces to share an e-learning infrastructure. |
Inc. February 2006 Carl Schramm |
Five Universities You Can Do Business With When it comes to technology transfer, smart schools resist the temptation to treat every entrepreneur's new idea like it's the next Google. |
HBS Working Knowledge August 18, 2008 Martha Lagace |
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education As an industry, education has certain elements that have made the market difficult to penetrate and lasting reform hard to come by. |
AFP eWire March 16, 2009 |
Colleges and Universities Raised Record Amounts in 2008, But Worry for Future Charitable contributions to colleges and universities in the United States grew by 6.2 percent in 2008, reaching $31.6 billion. Endowments, though, saw a less than 1 percent gain. |
Mother Jones February 2001 Eyal Press & Jennifer Washburn |
Digital Diplomas Welcome to the brave new world of higher education, where profesors are 'content experts,' classes are 'courseware,' and students are customers. But just what is a dot-com degree worth? |
Information Today November 5, 2015 |
ARL Promotes Excellence in Assessment Program EIA is the first national initiative to recognize colleges and universities that successfully integrate assessment practices across their campuses. |
HBS Working Knowledge October 8, 2007 Martha Lagace |
Management Education's Unanswered Questions Is management a profession? After more than a century of business education, it remains an open question. |
T.H.E. Journal January 21, 2010 Bridget McCrea |
Disruptive Innovation in the Classroom In the book, "Disrupting Class, How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns," co-author Michael Horn puts a positive spin on disruption by examining how it will change the way students learn in the educational environment. |
Registered Rep. January 23, 2015 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Five Secrets Colleges Are Keeping From You While universities may lure students with fancy brochures, luxury housing and scenic architecture, the reality is that colleges are high-stakes businesses preoccupied with enhancing their own prestige. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2003 Stephen P. Forte |
A Pragmatic Approach to High-Tech Security on Campus The challenge is complex, especially considering how decentralized a campus' security, IT and safety systems are today. |
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 |
HHMI Awards $50 Million to Colleges Forty-seven small colleges and universities have accepted a challenge: to create more engaging science classes, bring real-world research experiences to students, and increase the diversity of students who study science. |
InternetNews August 16, 2005 Jim Wagner |
VeriSign Goes to School Amid a string of college security breaches, the company teams with a nonprofit to offer digital certificate services to schools. |
Job Journal November 9, 2008 |
Career Snapshot: Postsecondary Teachers College-level instructors enjoy a class of students more eager to learn. |
Job Journal December 4, 2005 Julia Hollister |
Careers on Campus Because colleges and universities are basically small communities with small-town needs, they employ a wide range of well-paid non-teaching professionals. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2011 |
HHMI Announces $60 Million Competition for Colleges Challenging colleges and universities to think creatively about how they teach science, HHMI has invited 215 undergraduate-focused institutions across the country to apply for a total of $60 million in science education grants. |
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004 |
Education: The Bleak Writing On The Blackboard State budget deficits will mean stingier spending on public schools. The bright spot: Test-prep and tutoring firms are thriving. |
The Motley Fool January 4, 2006 Rich Smith |
Fools Want to Know, With Apollo Group An interview with the for-profit educator's CEO Todd Nelson on the company, its business practices and its stock. |
Registered Rep. September 17, 2012 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
College Rankings Are Not Accurate People don't appreciate that U.S. News doesn't even attempt to measure the type of learning going on at the nation's colleges and universities. |
Information Today January 23, 2012 |
Internet2 Partners With McGraw Hill and Courseload to Test eText Program Internet2, McGraw-Hill, and Courseload announced implementation of an eText Pilot Trial Pack to students and faculty at five universities for the Spring 2012 semester. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2015 Mary Wu |
The Future of Institutional Repositories at Small Academic Institutions: Analysis and Insights While all institutional repositories have experienced the same obstacles relating to a lack of faculty participation, those at small universities face unique challenges. |
T.H.E. Journal December 2004 Kim Jones |
2005: The Year of the Digital Campus Today, learning is no longer bound to a fixed location such as a classroom. Thanks to some innovative technology trends, the educational landscape is transforming into a "digital campus." |
CAUSE/EFFECT Vol 22 Num 4 1999 Sarah Michalak |
Decentralized Information Technology Requires Central Coordination! What does an institutional history of extraordinarily decentralized computing mean for 21st-century technology support, and how can necessary changes be made in a deeply rooted institutional culture? |
BusinessWeek December 20, 2004 William C. Symonds |
Rich College, Poor College For the most part, the wealth of the private sector is likely to flow to those that already have the most. So fever-pitch fund-raising at top-tier universities leaves the others way behind. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2013 Forrest Wright |
What do Librarians Need to Know About MOOCs? The emergence of MOOCs represents a rising trend of removing the learning process from the physical campus, but to an exaggerated degree. This is not necessarily a negative trend; however it does have huge implications for university libraries. |
Searcher May 2006 Barbie E. Keiser |
Beyond ERIC: The Early Years (Part 3) As education moves us from the realm of the child to the adult, the emphasis of the resources shifts from education to learning, with greater responsibility placed on the student for finding, using, sharing, and expanding knowledge in a particular discipline. |
T.H.E. Journal December 2000 |
Partnership Aids Admissions Service Embark and PeopleSoft, Inc. have partnered to offer colleges and universities integrated, Web-based application services for admissions... |
Knowledge@Wharton |
Selling Out: Are Universities Turning into Corporate Enclaves? Derek Bok's new book, Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education, sets the record straight, explaining how, during the last 25 years, universities' commercial investments have grown at a tremendous pace. |
Parameters Winter 2006/2007 Marc Lindemann |
Storming the Ivory Tower: The Military's Return to American Campuses The Rumsfeld v. FAIR decision is a signal victory in the ongoing effort to return the military to America's most selective universities. |
D-Lib September 2005 Lynch & Lippincott |
Institutional Repository Deployment in the United States as of Early 2005 Institutional repositories are now clearly and broadly being recognized as essential infrastructure for scholarship in the digital world. |
Reason February 2008 Shikha Dalmia |
Legacies of Injustice Alumni preferences threaten educational equity and no one seems to care. |
Chemistry World November 1, 2012 Patrick McGhee |
Losing concentration In the UK, successive governments have held to the mantra that funding for university research should be heavily concentrated in a handful of universities. |
AFP eWire February 24, 2006 |
Contributions to Colleges and Universities Grow by Nearly 5 Percent Contributions in 2005 increased to $25.6 billion, driven strongly by individual giving that accounted for nearly half of all giving. Giving by alumni grew by 6%, however the study uncovered a downward trend in the number of alumni willing to give. |
D-Lib July 2001 Hans Roes |
Digital Libraries and Education: Trends and Opportunities This article attempts to identify strategic issues for libraries wishing to pursue a more active policy with regard to the changes affecting higher education due to the increased use of information and communication technologies... |
Salon.com December 15, 2000 Maura Kelly |
Stop the madness Admissions officers at top-rated colleges prescribe time out for burnout... |
BusinessWeek November 17, 2003 William C. Symonds |
Cash-Cow Universities For-profits are growing fast and making money. Do students get what they pay for? |
T.H.E. Journal February 2005 |
EDUCAUSE and the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Partnership A new partnership between EDUCAUSE and the Center for Internet Security (CIS) will put more tools in the hands of colleges and universities in an effort to improve cyber security. |
The Motley Fool January 20, 2012 Brian Stoffel |
A Fool Hedges His Bets One analyst changes his outlook on for-profit education. |
T.H.E. Journal August 2006 Katherine Grayson |
Technology Leaders Wanted A search for innovators in higher education technology. |
BusinessWeek November 15, 2004 William C. Symonds |
Should Public Universities Behave Like Private Colleges? Public Universities are hiking tuition and becoming more elitist, ducking a key social role. |
Chemistry World September 28, 2012 Rebecca Trager |
US public research universities in jeopardy, board warns The US's public research universities are in serious jeopardy, the National Science Board is warning. |
CRM August 2012 Leonard Klie |
CRM Comes to Campus at a Frantic Pace Colleges and universities are starting to use CRM solutions to manage relationships with students at every stage. |
Fast Company Ainsley O'Connell |
Now You Can Earn A Yale Degree From The Comfort Of Your Living Room Earning a Yale degree will no longer require moving to New Haven, Connecticut, thanks to an online program for would-be physicians' assistants that the university plans to launch early next year. |
Reason July 2008 Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Education for Profit Many of the criticisms about the University of Phoenix are technically accurate. But much of what academic traditionalists see as problems, Phoenix advertises proudly as solutions. |
CAUSE/EFFECT Vol 22 Num 2 1999 Dorothy A. Frayer |
Creating a Campus Culture to Support a Teaching and Learning Revolution How can a college or university best support the faculty in the process of rethinking courses and curricula to unleash the truly revolutionary potential for technology to enhance learning?... |