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University trustees are among the least-studied groups in higher education. Increasingly, they’re making news – as the focus of a crisis. That raises the question: To whom are they accountable?
The current threat to university autonomy has been triggered by a myriad of financial and administrative challenges
Nationwide, state government money has become a smaller and smaller fraction of public higher education budgets.
Overall, the growth in giving to public higher ed institutions isn’t compensating for a reduction in funding by the states.
New systems with stricter rules would make it easier to hold colleges and universities accountable on behalf of the taxpayers who support them.
When public universities and their foundations take large sums of money from political and strategic philanthropists, they can’t safeguard academic freedom unless there’s some transparency.
Vice-chancellors often benchmark their salaries against comparable positions in other corporate sectors, a symptom of the trend towards the corporatisation of universities in Australia.
Colleges and universities boast US$547 billion in endowment assets, yet only a handful of elite schools would be taxed under the proposal.
What does tuition-free college mean in other parts of the world? And what would it mean for international students?
What do low-income students really need to complete college? Here is a roundup of articles from our experts.
A provocative new documentary, ‘Starving the Beast,’ blames the condition of higher ed on right-wing policies. A scholar argues that the film ignores a long history that has led to current crisis.
Academics feel insecure, are overwhelmed by unmanageable workloads and burdened by bureaucracy. And things are only getting worse.
America’s higher education has been split into two unequal worlds. Schools serving the bulk of America’s underprivileged students lack resources. Making college free will not solve the problem.
Free public higher education is possible and necessary. It’s also realistic, if it’s based on thorough research, consultation and students giving back through community service after graduation.
Underfunding has created incentives for colleges and universities to enroll nonresidents. But those that take a high number of poor students are on the verge of closure.
Statistics on black student graduation rates don’t reveal the complete picture: at highly selective colleges and universities, black student graduation rates range from 88 percent to 96 percent.
College education results in not just better earnings, but better health care and child development as well as political stability and lower criminal justice costs. Should states invest more?
Contributing to the public good should be a top priority for public and land grant universities. Here, some ideas on how to match what institutions value with academics’ own drive for service.
State support for public research universities declined by 28 percent between 2003 and 2013. So, why does it matter?
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Associate Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education, Michigan State University
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Professor, Environment and Development Sociology, The University of Queensland
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Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Human Serivces and Social Work, Griffith University
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Clinical Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
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Professor of Education and Sociology, American University
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Dean and Professor of Higher and International Education, Executive Director of SUNY's Strategic, Academic, and Innovative Leadership (SAIL) Institute, and Co-Director of the Cross-Border Education Research Team, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Texas Woman's University
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Chief Director: Tshwane University of Technology – Institute for Economic Research on Innovation; Node Head: DST/NRF SciSTIP CoE; and Professor Extraordinary: Stellenbosch University – Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology., Tshwane University of Technology
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Professor of Research, Foundations & Higher Education, Northern Arizona University
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Senior Researcher in Labour Studies and Education, University of Johannesburg
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Director of the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation and Associate Professor of Education, University of Johannesburg
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Researcher, Social Sciences, University of Fort Hare
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PhD Scholar, Wits School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, University of Michigan
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Researcher at the Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and Training, Nelson Mandela University
