Higher Education Reform Education Reform Education

Higher Education Reform Education Reform Education

The "Higher Education Reform" category is for websites devoted to questioning and changing established educational practices in colleges and universities. They may recommend, for example, changes in teaching methods, admissions, or administrative practices; improvements to textbooks, schedules, or curricula; reforms of campus life; and so on.

Top: Society: Issues: Education: Education Reform: Higher Education Reform

See Also:

Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship - Goals, activities, newsletter, membership info, and articles on current issues from SAFS, which seeks to uphold academic freedom and high standards against political correctness at universities in Canada.
Higher Education Act: Reauthorization Status and Issues - A review of U.S. federal education policy, including the Higher Education Act, Pell Grants, student loans, teacher training, and distance education.
Re-envisioning the Ph.D. Project - Dedicated to fostering national/international discussion and initiatives that address the question: How can we re-envision the Ph.D. to meet the societal needs of the 21st Century?
Rutgers After Lawrence: Reforming a Once-Great University - Faculty essay on the reforms needed at Rutgers University to strengthen academics and reduce the destructive impact of Division I athletics.
The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty of America's Campuses - How university administrators, particularly in campus student affairs divisions, have abridged the civil liberties of students and faculty members, and what can be done to redress the problem.
Vermont Campus Compact - A higher education organization promoting greater institutional commitment to community service, service learning, and local partnerships
Student Diversity Program at Cal State Fullerton - The SDP is designed to address the retention of "At Risk" students. Using unconventional methods of intervention, SDP has demonstrated over 90% success at California State University, Fullerton.
Tuition-free MIT - A radical proposal arguing that schools such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which have many ties to wealthy corporations, should not charge their students tuition.
A Student's-Eye View of Education's Fall and Decline - Explores why a more innovative and progressive approach to education is held back by an institutional mindset that is threatened by, and even hostile to, revolutionary changes.
The National Academy for Academic Leadership - The academy educates academic decision makers to be leaders institutional change that improves student learning. Administrators and faculty will develop the knowledge and skills to effect systemic institutional change.
The Pew Charitable Trusts - Reports from research grantees addressing issues in higher education reform.
The Collegiate Way: Residential Colleges and Higher Education Reform - Reforming campus life by dividing large universities into small residential colleges like those at Oxford and Cambridge.
Foundation Coalition - An NSF-sponsored initiative funding systemic reform in undergraduate engineering education at seven schools.
Coalition for Higher Education Act Reform - Recommends revision of the U.S. Higher Education Act which denies or delays financial aid to students with drug offenses.
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education - "FIRE is a nonprofit educational foundation devoted to free speech, individual liberty, religious freedom, the rights of conscience, legal equality, due process, and academic freedom" in American universities.
American Council of Alumni and Trustees - Committed to academic excellence and freedom of expression in higher education.
The Irascible Professor - Irreverent commentary on the state of education in America today, by Dr. Mark H. Shapiro and guest writers.
The New 'U' - Forbes.com - Derek Bok, former president of Harvard, discusses the quality of American university education and how it can be significantly improved.
The Learning Community Commons - The National Learning Communities Project provides cutting-edge academic learning community work in undergraduate education across the United States.
Pope Center for Higher Education Policy - Conservative public policy organization publishing white papers and other reports on how to improve higher education. Global in interest, but having a special emphasis on North Carolina.
Discourse on Shamefulness - An essay that argues for the traditional literary canon at the English Department in the University of Houston.
Student Loan Hell - Biblical argument for abolishing the ban on student loan bankruptcy discharge, as well as links to other student loan information sites.

XML Feeds:

Critical Mass - Dedicated to commentary on the state of American academe. [RSS]

Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.
Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor
Click here to add, change or remove your listing

MySQL - Cache Direct sec.