Posts tagged as “Higher Ed in general”

8/11/2010: Interesting article in the Chronicle on the increasing role of the Gates Foundation in higher ed issues. Not everyone welcomes them: Diane Ravitch, in a chapter of her recent book, Death and Life of the Great American School System, takes aim at Gates and other business tycoons’ foundations. “Education,”…

7/15/2010: From Sharona Coutts at propublica.org, hat tip to Margaret Soltan: Short sellers have shown a steadily increasing interest in for-profit schools, according to Will Duff Gordon, an analyst at Data Explorers, a company that collects and analyzes data about short-selling. Since April, his company has also seen a spike…

7/9/2010: What do undergraduates do? Economists report that average study time per week fell from 24 hours in 1961 to 14 in 2003. (Babcock has a bunch of other interesting looking papers.) Here’s a breakdown by major: My understanding is that students should have about 2 hours of assigned work…

5/23/2010: UO Journalism student Briselda Molina has a very thought provoking op-ed in the RG asking if public universities should charge the children of illegal immigrants in-state tuition. I know UO students like the one she writes about – brought to Oregon by their parents as infants or young children,…

5/15/2010: The NY Times points out that many students would be better served with something less than a traditional 4 year degree. “Roast Duck” responds in our comments: The NYT article about alternatives to college is a bit misleading. Forget that some of the principals — Richard Vedder, Charles Murray…

4/4/2010: From Bill Graves in the Oregonian: SALEM – Higher education officials today reviewed options for dealing with a shortage of money for need-based state college scholarships next year, the results of miscalculations that led to too many grants this year. … The commission expects to have about $32 million…

3/1/2010: Most of what I’ve seen on this (e.g. the Frohnmayer report) simply assumes they should, reporting clearly misleading numbers like the fact that college graduates earn more. (The average effect, not the marginal. Because they go to college, or because they are smart enough to go to college? Doesn’t…

2/16/2010: From the NYT story on a survey showing “public discontent with colleges”: “They think college is important, but they’re really losing trust in the management and leadership.”

12/30/2009: This is a fascinating piece on the history of the ivy league, from the London Times: Why are American universities on balance so much better than those of continental Europe? And why do the universities of the rest of the English-speaking world fall, on average, somewhere in the middle?…

The Teach Naked movement is about not using powerpoint for lecturing – or at least not relying on it as a crutch. The Chronicle has an article on it here. Last year I started posting powerpoint slides online, but lecturing just using the blackboard. Way more fun and interactive. The…

8/10/2009: InsideHigherEd.com has several interesting articles today, including this on perceptions about access to financial aid for college, by Deborah M. Warnock at UW. From their summary of her paper: Hispanic and Asian parents of eighth graders are less likely than white parents to think about how to finance a…

Here‘s a new paper on higher education productivity. I’m no economist, but it seems to have a wealth of interesting data, broken out by state. Oregon’s cost per degree is the 3rd lowest in the country. Oregon is 9th in terms of net in-migration of people with 4 year degrees…