College admissions'that is, admission to the school of your choice'has become incredibly competitive. Students and their families prepare from grade school onward to shape school ""careers"" that will give them a leg up in applying to selective colleges. But sterling academic performance, AP classes, high test scores, and sports and other ......
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 American life.
Higher education funding and tuition and fee inflation are complicated matters that very few people understand well. Degrees of Debt clarifies the central issues and provides plentiful data to support its key points. It is a must-read for anyone who believes that maintaining access to and the affordability of public colleges are vitally important ......
Accounting and Budgeting Principles for Higher Education
As a business, the university must account for the money it receives and spends according to standardized bookkeeping and financial reporting methods. But members of the academic community may not be familiar with standard financial procedures, while accountants may be unaware of the unique financial attributes of colleges and universities. To ......
Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs)'not-for-profit, degree-granting colleges and universities that enroll at least 25% or more Latinx students'are among the fastest-growing higher education segments in the United States. As of fall 2016, they represented 15% of all postsecondary institutions in the United States and enrolled 65% of all Latinx ......
A deanship in higher education is an exciting but complex job combining technical administration and academic leadership. On one hand, the dean is an institutional leader, standing up for the faculty, staff, and students. On the other, the dean is a middle manager, managing personnel, curriculum, and budgets and trying to live up to the ......
Higher education occupies a difficult place in twenty-first-century American culture. Universities - the institutions that bear so much responsibility for the future health of our nation - are at odds with the very publics they are intended to serve. As Kathleen Fitzpatrick asserts, it is imperative that we re-center the mission of the ......
Land-grant colleges and universities occupy a special place in the landscape of American higher education. Publicly funded agricultural and technical educational institutions were first founded in the mid-nineteenth century with the Morrill Act, which established land grants to support these schools. They include such prominent names as ......
