Mistaken Goal

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

A few weeks ago, I posted a set of recommended readings that I originally sent to a colleague who asked me what I would recommend as essential reading for understanding technology in student affairs. I’ve updated this list adding two sets of resources. Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The history of these closely related developments over the past 150 years is explained in our forthcoming book , Wealth, Cost and Price in American Higher Education: A Brief History (Johns Hopkins University Press). The remainder has been paid by subsidies from gifts, grants, contracts, endowment income, and government appropriations.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

A few years later, Kathleen Norris’s memoir Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer’s Life (2008) treated the malady with less deference to secular psychiatry, taking seriously the understanding of it as a spiritual condition. The author is a professor of history at the University of Georgia.)

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The other $100 million will be used to establish the Center for the Inclusive Digital Transformation of Africa, a hub for a network of at African universities across the continent that will receive funding for faculty development, cutting-edge technology and engineering programs, and other initiatives. ambassador’s house.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

There is a dual admission program with the Armour College of Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), which provides scholarships. Through partnerships with organizations such as the aerospace and defense technology company Northrop Grumman, EPW is able to offer internships and research opportunities.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 23, 2022

That’s the largest increase since 2008. Did more faculty adopt active and experiential learning strategies, make purposeful use of technology, adopt more valid, reliable forms of grading, or assume a greater role in mentoring? Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Not that I could see.

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HEPI

JULY 23, 2024

This long read was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. Formed in 2005 from a series of mergers including the Surrey Institute of Art and Design which already had TDAP, the University for the Creative Arts had gained university title in 2008.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

Drumm McNaughton In this episode of Changing Higher Ed podcast, listeners will gain an overview of how technology is reshaping the EdTech arena and the potential risks of the current state of OPMs. These agreements are not just on paper; they are integrated into a sophisticated technological system.

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SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

Shattock, 1984 ; Shattock, 2008 ) The decision was taken to vary grants for funding according to the research performance of universities. Costing £246m in 2014, the REF proved to be vastly more expensive than the RAE, which had cost £66m for the 2008 exercise. The RAE was replaced in 2014 by the Research Excellence Framework (REF).

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 6, 2025

00:03:35] The Colleges of Law: History and Evolution Drumm McNaughton: Tell me a little bit about the Colleges of Law. And legal education after the recession, 2008, 2009, there was drops in enrollment. And I know how personally rewarding it is. Matt Nehmer: Colleges of Law just celebrated its 55th anniversary.

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Higher Education Inquirer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

The first big hit was the 2008 recession, when graduates found it hard to get jobs. In reality, it will just add another chapter to the history of credential inflation. For several generations, almost a taboo topic--but once out in the open, an increasing percentage of the US population has concluded a college degree is not worth it.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Key Points of the 2014 book: History of Federal Involvement: The book explored the evolution of federal student loan programs, highlighting how each policy change created new problems while attempting to address the previous ones. Loan limits were raised, further fueling the debt increase.

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HEPI

MARCH 7, 2023

I left my job teaching History in schools because I was attracted by the taught Master’s course in Contemporary British History that was on offer here back then. John was a remarkable academic who worked for this institution for 37 years, from early 1972 until late 2008, a year before his untimely death.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by Bradford DeLong. Worries that the future will be worse than the present are an excellent reason to read economic histories such as Bradford DeLong’s new book, Slouching Towards Utopia. Published in September 2022.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

Following the 2008 Great Recession, lesser funded institutions all across the country cleaned house. Salaries haven’t kept up with the cost of living, and many colleges are way behind in technology and modern ways of working. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Higher Ed Marketing Lab

OCTOBER 1, 2021

?. For the first time in history, four generations are working side by side in the workplace. And so generations fundamentally come about because of shared experiences and the shared mindset of the people raising them, certainly now technology, entertainment, social mores, all those things help shape a generation.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 11, 2025

Alex Hernandez: I think this college has just created muscle over time to create new things, and it’s got pride, and it’s got history around it. We have seen so much change in technology, in the last couple of years, AI coming out, you’ve already talked about that and bringing on AI. Why is that? Games, et cetera.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 6, 2025

2017) For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America Cornell University Press. Women and Higher Education in American History. Fast and Curious: A History of Shortcuts in American Education. American higher education: A history. 1991) The American College and University: A History. Bousquet, M.

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