Recently added articles from Change:
The no-op ed.(EDITORIAL)
Jul 01, 2009; Miller, Margaret A. ... <Pre> Fat Charlie the Archangel Sloped into the room He said I have no opinion about this And I have no opinion about that. --Paul Simon, "Crazy Love: Vol. II," Graceland </Pre> One thing about being an editor: you get to spout opinions. Generally, I relish this freedom ...
Bullies, jerks and weasels.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2009; Cheldelin, Sandra I. ... Bravo to Michael Fischer on "Defending Collegiality" (Change, May/June 2009). Robert Sutton's list of misbehaving faculty--"bullies, creeps, jerks, weasels, tormentors, tyrants, ... unconstrained egomaniacs"--conjures painful memories in most of us of unsuccessful attempts to cope with ...
21ST-century partnerships.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2009; Fitzgerald, Brian K. ... I schinger and Puuka ("Universities for Cities and Regions: Lessons from the OECD Reviews," Change, May/June 2009) accurately capture the catalytic role of universities in regional growth and the challenges that corporations--large and small--face. Public and private land-grant ...
Online education.(LETTERS)
Jul 01, 2009; Mendenhall, Robert W. ... In his article "Online Education: The Revolution that Wasn't" (Change, May/June 2009), William Doyle points out that 3.9 million students (over 40 percent of all college students) were taking at least one online course in Fall 2007, up from virtually no online courses in the mid-1990s, yet ...
Misunderstanding education: why increasing college enrollments can't and won't fix the economy.
Jul 01, 2009; Wolf, Alison ... In times of recession, occupational sectors and professional groups naturally take stock. What might they have to offer the country? And what might the country have to offer them? The College Board, on cue, has just published a Wake-up Call to the American People and American ...
Intellectual transformation and budgetary savings through academic reorganization.
Jul 01, 2009; Capaldi, Elizabeth D. ... When times are good, there is little urgency to evaluate fundamental assumptions, as investments can be made in new projects and structures while the old continue. Constrained resources do not allow this luxury. The current economic crisis and associated budget woes in universities ...
Does California's master plan still work?
Jul 01, 2009; Burdman, Pamela ... In the latter half of the 1990s, a series of reports bearing sober titles like "Breaking the Social Contract" and "California at the Crossroads" urged California policymakers to prepare for the imminent arrival of baby-boomers' children at the doors of the state's colleges and ...
Whither the global talent pool?
Jul 01, 2009; Douglass, John Aubrey ... On the surface, it looks like good news. Recent data on the enrollment of international students within American universities and colleges suggests that the US has recovered some of its historic strength as a magnet for foreign talent after several years of declining or stagnant growth ....
Executive searches and the use of consultants.
Jul 01, 2009; Atwell, Robert H. ... Formerly, search consultants were used in higher education at only a small number of institutions--and even there, only when recruiting presidents. But over the years, the industry has grown to the point that many large and small firms now compete for higher education searches, including ...
Transfer and the part-time student: the Gulf separating community colleges and selective universities.
Jul 01, 2009; Handel, Stephen J. ... At a gathering of community college counselors several years ago hosted by the University of California, the mood turned testy when 1 led a discussion about how the University of California could recruit more transfer students to apply to its campuses, "If you would allow our students to ...
From students to change agents: The 2009 K. Patricia cross future leaders Awards.(LISTENING TO STUDENTS)
Jul 01, 2009; ... One of my chief delights as editor of Change is to read, every year, the personal statements of students who have won the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award. Pat Cross, professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, has long been a leading scholar in higher ...
Higher education funding: the new normal.(PLAYING THE NUMBERS)
Jul 01, 2009; Doyle, William R. ... Like the rest of the economy, higher education is suffering the effects of this recession. This year public colleges and universities will face some of their worst budget cuts ever--in some states up to 20 percent--leading to layoffs and massive reductions in services. In 1999 ...
