Over the past two decades, higher education employment has undergone a radical transformation with faculty becoming contingent, staff being outsourced, and postdocs and graduate students becoming a larger share of the workforce. For example, the faculty has shifted from one composed mostly of tenure-track, full-time employees to one made up ......
American higher education is being torn apart. Institutions, curricula, courses, and faculty roles are being "unbundled"-broken into constituent parts in the name of efficiency and cost savings. As a result, the college learning experience is fragmented and incoherent, leaving graduates less and less equipped to confront the dire ......
Is your family just starting to think about visiting colleges? Maybe you are in the throes of the process, feeling stressed out and overwhelmed. Did we miss a deadline? Should we be looking in-state or out-of-state, big school or small school? And what is a ""FAFSA"" anyway?
In our current age of reform, there are countless ideas about how to ""fix"" higher education. But before we can reconceptualize the college experience, we need to remember why we have these institutions in the first place'and what we want from them.
In What's the Point of College?, historian Johann N. Neem offers a new way ......
The Rise of Industry Logic in Public Higher Education
American public higher education is in crisis. After decades of public scrutiny over affordability, access, and quality, indictments of the institution as a whole abound. Campus leaders and faculty report a loss of public respect resulting from their alleged unresponsiveness to demands for change. But is this loss of confidence warranted? And ......
The definitive history of American higher education-now up to date. Colleges and universities are among the most cherished-and controversial-institutions in the United States. In this updated edition of A History of American Higher Education, John R. Thelin offers welcome perspective on the triumphs and crises of this highly influential sector in ......
In the twenty-first century, universities worldwide have found themselves thrust into a great ""brain race"" as nations, both developed and developing, seek to enhance their place in the global knowledge economy. As the concept of the de-localized university'one that has radically expanded, perhaps even beyond national borders'grows, competing ......
Stressed by increasing student demand for mental health services, campus counseling centers across the country are grappling with how best to deliver ethical, effective, and efficient service. Hampered by limited budgets, most centers find it deeply challenging to address growing college mental health service needs. Yet little conceptual ......
Academic freedom'crucial to the health of American higher education'is threatened on many fronts. In The Future of Academic Freedom, a leading scholar equips us to defend academic freedom by illuminating its meaning, the challenges it faces, and its relation to freedom of expression.
