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Higher Education Reform Education Reform Education

Higher Education Reform

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.

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- A review of U.S. federal education policy, including the Higher Education Act, Pell Grants, student loans, teacher training, and distance education.
- Irreverent commentary on the state of education in America today, by Dr. Mark H. Shapiro and guest writers.
- Providing case study analysis and informed opinions about higher education policy and works to assist students and the general public to understand key issues that affect them.
- Reports from research grantees addressing issues in higher education reform.
- An essay that argues for the traditional literary canon at the English Department in the University of Houston.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Dedicated to insuring that big-time college sports do not compromise the educational missions of colleges and universities.
- 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?
- A brief expose by a former medical student of the practices which occurred at the largest medical school in the Midwest in the 1990s.
- Faculty essay on the reforms needed at Rutgers University to strengthen academics and reduce the destructive impact of Division I athletics.
- Report examining major university presidents' perceptions of the impact of Internet on education & pressures that promote & inhibit.
- Committed to academic excellence and freedom of expression in higher education.
- Analysis of the role market forces play in higher education with the goal of developing and implementing thoughtful, market-oriented policy options.
- Biblical argument for abolishing the ban on student loan bankruptcy discharge, as well as links to other student loan information sites.
- Reforming campus life by dividing large universities into small residential colleges like those at Oxford and Cambridge.
- 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.
- 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.
- The National Learning Communities Project provides cutting-edge academic learning community work in undergraduate education across the United States.
- "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.
- 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.
- Recommends revision of the U.S. Higher Education Act which denies or delays financial aid to students with drug offenses.
- A higher education organization promoting greater institutional commitment to community service, service learning, and local partnerships
- University Secrets is the full text of a book describing higher education's failure to educate students and its exploitive transfers of funds. It criticizes grades, SATs, tracking, and housing policies.
- An NSF-sponsored initiative funding systemic reform in undergraduate engineering education at seven schools.

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