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Anyone who has ever complained that colleges and universities are highly bureaucratic...
The fall, of course, brought the usual flurry of stories, opinion pieces, and blogs c...
Among the efforts that many colleges and universities quickly announced after Hurrica...
Some policy experts and college leaders have fretted over the past few years that the...
A committee in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed a resolution in July ...
Also on the topic of women in science, a recent report from the Commission on Profess...
President Lawrence H. Summers of Harvard University announced, as the academic year w...
In a comprehensive survey of 7,600 postdoctoral scientists recently released by Sigma...
NEON, Ky. - "Change comes slowly here in the mountains," said Arlie Hall, a minister ...
I heard the following "Yogi-ism" in Orlando last month, during the Design-Build Insti...
Byline: Cynthia L. Webb Oracle 's hostile takeover bid for business software rival ...
IMRA concluded its most successful Leadership Forum ever on Jan. 21. More than 100 se...
When Alexander the Great conquered Sidon after a long Persian occupation, there were ...
In reaction to the increasing shareholder pressure for short-term profit, training pr...
CHICAGO -- The International Foodservice Manufacturers Association and the Internatio...
Help your organization develop its leaders and you help yourself. "Most executives ...
The Association's Eighty-seventh Annual Meeting was held June 8-10 at the Omni Shoreh...
When Callie Mattrisch decided to join a burgeoning rowing club the summer after her f...
Money pit of college athletics Women's basketball tops budget busters By JOHN M...
Bias acceptance is not limited to those who opt out of the tenure track, however. In ...
Faculty of school-age children also felt pressure to avoid bias against caregiving by...
Even more painful, Vanessa reported, was the pressure two women felt to delay or hide...
Several faculty we shadowed complained of meetings scheduled to begin at 4 or 5 p.m. ...
INCLUSIVE PRACTICES These are informal practices that acknowledge the existence of ...
Finally, we call on departments and institutions to make more transparent the criteri...
By law, federally mandated work-family policies are entitlements. Some institutions h...
There were no significant differences in the percentage of mothers, fathers, childles...
This suggests that faculty mothers who attended high-prestige graduate schools and wh...
CONCLUSIONS The infrequent use of work/family policies suggests that academic paren...
Roberta Spalter-Roth is director of the American Sociological Association's (ASA) res...
I teach a graduate course on the American professoriate, and after we've covered topi...
Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition KATHLEEN BARKER & KATHLE...
A New Labor Movement for the New Century GREGORY MANTSIOS (ed.), with an Afterword by...
ELIMINATING POVERTY In a symposium entitled "Eliminating Poverty: Reframing the Debat...
With the presidential election nearly upon us, much of the political debate has cente...
One of the major issues for higher education in the early years of the 21st century i...
Faculty and their work are the heart, and thus determine the health, of every college...
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the graying of America's college and university fa...
Institutions across the country need to find ways to work collaboratively on a host o...
The September/October 2005 issue of Change, which featured the Carnegie Foundation's ...
Ninety-five years ago, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching releas...
ORIGINS Our project began with a simple conversation. In February 2002, a group of ...
In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, ...
Editor's Note: This history of the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) f...
If we value the way we have been trained to think by centuries of absorbing the cultu...
Before the burgeoning of creative-writing departments, writers who could not make end...
Tennyson's "In Memoriam" is his testimonial to a beloved friend who has die...
As I sit at my computer putting the final touches on this article, five of my colleag...
As its name suggests, the primary mission of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancem...
The Carnegie Commission on Higher Education was established by The Carnegie Foundatio...
In this era when many Americans seem resigned to greater encroachments on their perso...
The Bush Administration's announcement last year of $250 million in job training gran...
As most state governments were beginning their fiscal years on July 1, it looked like...
Editor's Note: The following is a message from Jo Ann M. Gora about her inauguration ...
In 1922, recognizing the importance of preserving its priceless art collection, the V...
The notion that faculties should politically mirror the U.S. population derives from ...
Another topic involving privacy attracted considerable attention in recent months--th...
To date, no one has uncovered any evidence that anatomical disparities might render w...
Steve Portch, raised in Great Britain before becoming a leader in American higher edu...
In the "about time" category, Senators Edward M. Kennedy, James M. Jeffords...
In 1997, in an unprecedented effort to resolve a cluster of practical problems that e...
The extent to which colleges and universities provide opportunities for students from...
The demise of the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) is an incalculable...
We're back at Macalester College for our second site visit. This meeting is with the ...
Writing some 275 years ago in The Spectator, Joseph Addison observed, "Numbers a...
I told The Times' publisher two years ago that the 2004 presidential campaign would b...
For more than 20 years Heldref Publications has been a partner with the American Asso...
Tor accrediting organizations, informing the public about higher education quality ha...
To the Editor: Russ Edgerton and Kay McClenny's tribute to Frank Newman (January/Fe...
We were inspired to produce this issue of Change by the lively and sometimes acrimoni...
The professor at the conference handed around a copy of his class syllabus to illustr...
"Despite reports to the contrary, I did not say, and I do not believe, that girl...
In a sidelight, Democratic Senator Ron Wyden announced, at about the time Margaret Sp...
Attention is frequently drawn to institutions' graduation rates by state and federal ...
When Change paid a tribute in our January/February 2005 issue to Harold Orlans, who w...
Every six years or so, reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965 provides t...
Last May, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce ...
For a businessperson, the argument that making a profit leads to poor "product&q...
Filippo's work at Santa Maria del Fiore set architects on a different path and gave t...
INTRODUCTION Assessment practitioners and policymakers have focused a good deal of ...
There are many synonyms for the word "mentor": coach, guide, role model, pe...
After several wonderful years spent sharing editorial responsibilities with Barbara C...
"The Thirty Tyrants have inflicted great pain on all of us here--here amidst the...
Andrew Carnegie was born in 1835 in Dunfermeline, Scotland. Forty-six years later and...
Early in 2004 the New England Board of Higher Education bestowed its annual award for...
Editor's Note: Frank Newman, former president of the Education Commission of the Stat...
I should begin this Resource Review by saying that, despite our tendency in higher ed...
E Pluribus Unum. I reflected a lot on this phrase as I prepared this issue in the mid...
The school at which I teach--Yale--was once "lily-white." It also was all-m...
The demand is clear. Whether we try to take a stance on the stem cell research contro...
Like the proverbial "square peg" that meets resistance when forced to go th...
Assuring the quality of higher education in America was once a straightforward, if te...
Why is it so hard for colleges and universities to change? Why do even innovative ins...
For most executives in private industry, help is only a phone call away. Faced with d...
We all know what the "glamour" colleges are in this country, at least accor...
It is both the best of times and the worst of times for America's community colleges....
Say the words "college student" to someone in the street and ask that perso...
Accrediting agencies step up requirements for evidence of institutions' efforts to im...
Opportunity in this country is more and more a function of education. Education matte...
Leading community colleges has become more complex in the 21st century and demands a ...
Though assessment has been a topic of conversation within the academy for over 20 yea...
Over the past 15 to 20 years, colleges and universities across the United States have...
Founded in 1898 by the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians), in the past 18 year...
From 1917 until it closed in 1993, Fort Ord, California, operated as the training gro...
Roberto Corrada's labor law course at the University of Denver embodies both growing ...
I once vowed, as a young woman exasperated with my elders, that I would never become ...
In the minds of most people, the best colleges are those that are the most selective....
Early in my career I became aware of the ways in which campus space configurations bo...
Creative collaborations between campus leaders and architects, laboratory designers, ...
Recently, a young faculty member commented that e-mail and inexpensive long distance ...
This coming December, I will retire after 31-and-a-half years at my current instituti...
Money matters. Of course it does. We knew that. Yet when it comes to money matters, t...
Sign Language Enrollment Zooms The 60,800 students enrolled in American Sign Langua...
Nearly 40 years ago, federal and state governments initiated a bold experiment: to cr...
Higher education, the California dream for well over 2 million undergraduate students...
Public colleges and universities are complex organizations that assert their institut...
Liberal arts colleges occupy a unique place in the landscape of higher education. Whe...
Universities in the Marketplace Former Harvard President Derek Bok, now a professor...
In 1997, we published "Academic Integrity: Ten Principles" in the AAHE Bull...
The digital revolution makes it easy for students to plagiarize. Using Internet searc...
In any walk of life, the passing of a respected leader and teacher provides opportuni...
The 200 students in Travis Longcore's Geography 5 course ("People and the Earth'...
Professors, department chairs, and deans no longer are the sole sources of the learni...
Early one Friday morning in mid-January a few years ago. I received a telephone call ...
Academic and student affairs leaders long have acknowledged that much of students' le...
Since the last decades of the 20th century, the teaching and learning environment at ...
What makes a college a place that stimulates deep learning about the world, that enco...
I often begin workshops designed to raise faculty members' awareness of copyright iss...
Over the past decade, deliberate efforts to "market" colleges and universit...
For how long does something need to be part of common experience before it is conside...
At present, approximately 2 million students worldwide study outside of their home co...
An informed understanding of the development of the American professoriate during the...
Over the past decade, our understanding of student mobility patterns has increased co...
For a long time now, scholars and leaders of higher education have worried that multi...
During the last couple of years, several deans we are acquainted with either resigned...
The most recent educational innovation to capture widespread attention derives from t...
When I think of peripatetic students, an image from the Middle Ages comes to mind: a ...
The Boy from Tabriz Vartan Gregorian is a phenomenon rare as a live dodo bird. His ...
Thomson Gale's two-page ad in the Nov. 7, 2003, Times Literary Supplement exemplifies...
If God held all truth concealed in his right hand, and in his left hand the persisten...
Having different purposes in mind, students, historians, and literary scholars read t...
THE PROBLEM In February 2002, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that The A...
Rev. Alvin O'Neal Jackson, minister of National City Christian Church in Washington, ...
Management is an unsavory term among academics. Consequently, most of us opt for less...
The way private liberal arts colleges choose to answer the question, "How shall ...
A plagiarist's rewards and a victim's difficulties in securing redress are recounted ...
The Huntington is a great library set in a magnificent arboretum with trees from arou...
I've been in higher education for over 30 years, with time off for a diversion into e...
It is not unusual for universities periodically to undertake a strategic planning pro...
Duke literature professor Janice Radway examines the Book of the Month Club (BMC) as ...
The "Diversity Scorecard" is an ongoing initiative designed to foster insti...
"Courts traditionally have been hostile to [student] educational malpractice cla...
"Academic institutions now find themselves confronting hard questions about whet...
If you have been troubled about how to break a URL at the end of a line, The Chicago ...
Paul Many, who teaches creative writing at the University of Toledo, deduces the foll...
Literacy has been a mixed blessing to scholars, generating more information than they...
There have been student athletes who don't get into Stanford and have to go to Harvar...
Concerns about the effectiveness of college teaching Are of long standing. Historical...
Thomas Jefferson said that education's aim was to produce a "knowing head and an hone...
For the past five years, my colleagues and I at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advan...
For Bill Durden, the peripatetic president of Dickinson College, the October 5, 2001,...
The language of documents and forms that patients must sign to give "informed" consen...
University of Wisconsin historian and librarian David Henise provides hortatory but...
Bicycle safety is a high priority of Stanford police, says Police Chief Laura Wilson:...
Conjuring up visions of the future is a favorite American pastime. And as a largely u...
Do you want a prosperous future, increased earning power, more money and the respect ...
Harvard' s conversion from a gentlemanly enclave in the early 1900s to an internation...
A major irony of the present higher education landscape is that just as we are develo...
Large numbers of academic books seem to be addressed exclusively to other academics. ...
American colleges and universities continue to be challenged by the need to increase ...
A new student group, the Alliance for Sensible College Housing, has charged that a re...
FOR 30 YEARS, the staple of higher education policy in the United States has been the...
Lax institutional enforcement of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), "a t...
There is nothing more annoying than telling a new acquaintance that we are college pr...
The [Merton College, Oxford] library, built [in the 14th century]...and one of the fi...
If an archaeologist were to search among the artifacts of high school reform, she wou...
I must, for once, be quite personal. I liked Pat Moynihan and, when he died, felt I h...
In 2001, almost half of the college courses in the United States were using some kind...
Robert Follett, former president and CEO of Follett Corporation, textbook publisher, ...
...no 'work of art' is ever finished.... Work ceases upon the picture or manuscript n...
Public support of research at U. S. institutions of higher education is unparalleled ...
Heinz Eulau, emeritus professor of political science at Stanford and former president...
WHO WAS FEDERICO CESI, AND WHAT DOES HE HAVE TO DO WITH THE SUBJECT ADDRESSED HERE, T...
Being a trustee of a college or university has never been exactly fun. While the duti...
The mutilation of English in academe seems as normal as is scarification in many trib...
A hiring committee has been selected to review applications for the directorship of t...
A senior professor insists that the institution's no smoking policy is a violation of...
Many members have pressed the Modern Language Association (MLA) to report on the numb...
Life in the ivory tower is relatively safe, at least physically, for faculty members ...
Milton Greenberg, the respected former provost and interim president at American Univ...
Students familiar with the Internet think that schools and teachers make inadequate u...
The university president's body jolts upright in the middle of the night from a deep ...
Higher education law" is a term that eludes precise definition or boundaries. In the ...
Two brief reports by committees chaired by sociologist Neil Smelser summarize the kno...
For a quarter-century, colleges and universities committed to having diverse student ...
The dominant figure during the early and mid-1930s was Pitirim Sorokin, a Russian emi...
Two major influences will affect student affairs and related legal issues in the near...
It seems particularly appropriate that this issue of Change is devoted to legal issue...
Americans....divide into two parties. The larger...takes it for granted that there is...