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"Reason #3 - The Higher Education Plan: Reich actually has a plan for higher education. He would make tuition free (to public institutions), and recoup the costs with a levy on future earnings for anyone who participated. His proposal is more complex than this description, and wildly unlikely to ever be enacted anywhere, but still fun to debate."
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Reich is a SCUP–48 plenary speaker. Why don't we consider his book to be a must-read for those who might attend our conference in San Diego this July. Delete the scoop?
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"[T]he study should 'caution us against simplifying the conversation into "online learning is good" or "online learning is bad."' I have seen really bad online courses and quite amazing online courses. We need to continue to understand what pedagogy, features, and supports lead to greater student success and encourage more of those practices—whether online or off.”
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<quote> Russell Poulin, deputy director for research and analysis at the WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies, criticized the New York Times editorial’s “over the top” conclusions but said the CCRC study was an important contribution to research on online learning. He applauded the study’s focus on the need for students to “adapt” to online learning, and agreed that institutions needed to do a much better job ensuring that students are prepared to take online courses – not by restricting which ones have access to them, though, but by giving them more training in such courses, such as a required short course on online learning. Poulin also said the study gave short shrift to the importance of building student services into online courses. “For the underprepared students that the study worries about most, student support services (advising, tutoring, library resource materials, study skills assistance, technical assistance) could be the differentiator,” Poulin said in a blog post. “These services may be readily available on campus, but might be available on a limited basis or not at all for online students. Those differences are not measured by the study.” </quote>
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"Scanning the headlines today, I came across this article about Oxford University turning off Google Docs. Having made a friend at Oxford of a colleague in IT there, Tony Brett, I looked at my watch, recognized that it was noon for him, emailed him the link with a subject line: Tell Me More! To which Tony immediately replied with this more extended discussion of the technical security rational for the administrative decision. Sounds about right to me. Based on this evidence, were I in the position to advise administration, or make the decision myself, I would do the same thing." Delete the scoop?
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Nine US-based companies including Molson Coors, Alcoa, Sonoco Products, Herman Miller and UnitedHealth Group have been awarded gold medals for sustainability practices in RobecoSAM and KPMG’s Sustainability Yearbook...
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"Every year RobecoSAM – known until last month as SAM – assesses the sustainability performance of more than 2,000 companies across 58 sectors. Based on an in-depth analysis, each company is scored on up to 120 financially material economic, environmental, social and governance criteria specific to its own industry, with a focus on long-term value creation." Delete the scoop?
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Donald Norris, Robert Brodnick, Paul Lefrere, Joseph Gilmour, and Linda Baer (of Strategic Initiatives and more), recently scanned the past 17 years of change in higher education (a highly praised summary, by the way, which you can download here (PDF), and then the current environment for higher education.
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Gerald W. McLaughlin, associate vice president for enrollment management and marketing at DePaul University, Josetta S. McLaughlin, associate professor of management at Roosevelt University, and Richard D. Howard, retired from the University of Minnesota where he served as director of institutional research—report on a new method for determining "peers" for benchmarking and environmental scanning.
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Available for download at no cost only through Thursday, February 28. Watch the authors explain their method, and more, in this Planning Interview. Delete the scoop?
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Barabási credits this “small world” of the web to human nature—the fact that we tend to group into communities, whether in real life or the virtual world. The pages of the web aren’t linked randomly, he says: They’re organized in an interconnected hierarchy of organizational themes, including region, country and subject area. Interestingly, this means that no matter how large the web grows, the same interconnectedness will rule. Barabási analyzed the network looking at a variety of levels—examining anywhere from a tiny slice to the full 1 trillion documents—and found that regardless of scale, the same 19-click-or-less rule applied.
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President Obama recently announced a new initiative to address the question of higher education affordability. For decades, the cost of college has been growing faster than inflation, putting college out of reach for an increasing number of American families. However, if we are going to keep college cost increases down, information technology will have to play a key role, just as it has in a host of other industries. There are administrative costs and inefficiencies in higher education that are doing little to improve the quality of education but do make it less accessible to more students at a time when the opposite should be happening. ITIF will explore how IT can address these issues, looking at the experiences in various institutions and states and exploring what can be done at a federal level to improve productivity in higher education.
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Peer group, aspirational group, competitive group—here's a model for determining that using a combination of analytics and judgment. A Planning for Higher Education Interview with Gerry McLaughlin, Josetta McLaughlin, and Richard Howard, authors of "Reference Group Formation Using the Nearest Neighbor Method," Planning for Higher Education, 41:2 (2013).Delete the scoop?
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At some colleges, one person helps prevent the course-scheduling snags that can discourage students, delay their progress, or even make them drop out.
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"Even in times of plenty, students often learn a tough lesson when they register for courses: You can't always get what you want. In this era of budget cuts, however, students on some campuses have scrambled to get not only the courses they would like but also those they need for their majors and to satisfy core requirements." Delete the scoop?
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We plan to offer the first of WellesleyX courses in fall 2013, with others to follow in spring 2014 or thereafter. These offerings will not only provide opportunities to those who might not otherwise be able to afford or access a liberal arts education, but will also benefit on-campus students and alumnae. By partnering with other education leaders, Wellesley hopes to help shape the rapidly evolving online learning environment, as well as to explore ways to incorporate technology creatively and effectively in the classroom.
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Andrew Shennan is provost and dean of Wellesley College.
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Perhaps it's time to start talking about a STEM surplus?
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Ha. Nice work on the charts. Worth looking at. Delete the scoop?
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Women’s presence in higher education has increased, but as authors of scholarly papers—keys to career success—their publishing patterns differ from those of men. Explore nearly 1,800 fields and subfields, across four centuries, to see which areas have the most female authors and which have the fewest, in this exclusive Chronicle report. See how overall percentages differ from the important first-author position and—in two major bioscience fields—from the prestigious last-author position. See "About these data" for details. 
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February 26, 1:25 AM
It's timely to post this, as I see Gloria Steinhem and Amy Richards on Charlie Rose talking about "Makers" what is happening with feminism today, citing examples of so many fields and events that had been exclusively male, including the running of the Boston Marathon. ~ D Delete the scoop?
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You're going to hear a lot more about the term "reslience" in the coming years. Here's an inside look at how Homeland Security views resilience of higher education institutions and their communities. Delete the scoop?
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"Learn for Life is a diverse collection of inspiring architecture and spaces that support progressive and collaborative models of acquiring knowledge. In addition to new interpretations of traditional places for learning including kindergartens, schools, universities, libraries, and educational centers, the book also features commercial buildings whose architectural innovation is redefining our understanding of what it means to develop professionally in offices, corporate headquarters, conference rooms, convention centers, and laboratories. Also included are more experimental projects such as flexible, informal, and temporary installations and exhibits that offer further perspectives on the rapidly evolving topic of how best to learn in the new millennium." Delete the scoop?
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If college were merely about the "sale of information," the enterprise would have gone the way of Borders a long time ago.
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One of our favorite writers, Scott Carlson, examines place, libraries, and campuses, and concludes: "People who predicted the death of the library made the mistake of thinking that libraries were merely useful for information distribution—an understandable error, given that libraries' central role involved passing around books and journals. But pundits now make the same mistake when thinking about the college campus. If college were merely about the 'sale of information,' the enterprise would have gone the way of Borders a long time ago." Delete the scoop?
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David N. Cox Now more than ever, providing rich effective academic and research programming in a changing fiscal and market environment requires the whole academy—academic, student, financial, physical, IT, and advancement affairs. SCUP–48’s focus on 'cultivating integration' will provide a unique opportunity to bring all of those parts of higher education together. The conference is designed for cross-divisional conversations and institutional team building. Plan to join us in San Diego in July. -David Delete the scoop?
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Phyllis T.H. Grummon, director of education and planning, Society for College and University Planning, shares a primer she has written for SCUP members on the basics of environmental scanning. "A Primer on Environmental Scanning in Higher Education," Planning for Higher Education (2013, v41n2). Delete the scoop?
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The conference will include presentations, tours, and a panel discussion. Representatives from the administration, staff, facilities department, student body, and design and construction team will discuss the overall vision for the campus and how key elements were implemented and evaluated. Tours will highlight the sustainable features throughout the campus. The panelists will discuss successes and lessons learned from various projects’ efforts to integrate both the building goals and many sustainability goals during the design and construction process on campus.
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The nonprofit is giving university partners two options for sharing in the money its MOOCs bring in. But first, they have to bring it in.
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Harvard's EdX, "Track B" spin-off, reveals a bit about possible business models and who gets what money, when, for what, with its MOOCs. Delete the scoop?
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March 7 at the University of South Florida. Pre-registration deadline tomorrow! Emerging Forces in Campus Planning SCUP and the University of South Florida (USF) are hosting an exciting one-day symposium on the USF campus in Tampa. Building on the energy from last year’s one-day symposium, we will analyze several west coast Florida campus master plans, then get the pulse from a panel of leaders from major Florida institutions of higher education, including: University of Florida (UF), University of Central Florida (UCF), and University of South Florida (USF). To add to the energy of these dynamic leaders, we have reached out to a group of faculty who will discuss the impact of planning for today’s student and student success from the academic point of view.
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John Casteen, president emeritus of the University of Virginia, wrote this article for Trusteeship (May/June 2011).
Constant, rigorous planning, brave and principled management of resources, determined transparency, imaginative and world-class fund raising, core academic integrity, and constant work in the public interest these have to be the characteristics of tomorrow’s public universities.
Casteen will be a plenary speaker for SCUP's regional conference April 7–9 at Georgetown University, which is focused on academic relevance and asks the question, "Is Higher Education Still the Gateway for Opportunity in America?"