Dedicated the re-envisioning the Ph.D. to meet the societal needs of the 21st century ...

200 West Morgan Street, Suite 204 , Raleigh, NC 27601 Phone: 919-828-3876; Fax: 919-821-5117 Inquiry #12 on Faculty Compensation George Leef's Letter to William Stanley Inquiry # 9 on the University Bonds Inquiry # 5 on Financing Higher Education Clarion, the Pope Center's bimonthly magazine November/December 2000 Clarion Call, a weekly electronic newsletter Current Issue: July 27, 2001 Search ...

Irreverent commentary on the state of education in America today.

EEE Choose... -------------------- DO THIS NOW - Sign the petition - Tell your friends -------------------- HEA INFORMATION - What is the HEA - What student governments support HEA reform - What is the Coalition for HEA Reform -------------------- GET INVOLVED - Our legislative strategy STUDENTS - Sign the petition - Download the packet - Have your student government vote for reform - Tell ...

Look for our most recent publications: The New Competition for College , State Legislatures, May 2002: 12-17. Humanizing the Spectre of the Market , International Higher Education, Spring 2002: 11-13. New England's Higher Education Reputation is in Jeopardy , Connection, 16.2 (Spring 2002): 13-17. ...

Reforming campus academic life and student housing by dividing large universities into small faculty-led residential colleges.

The Learning Community Commons website is a resource for learning community projects in higher education across the United States.

Organization of college, university, and high school students restoring high academic standards and humanistic study of the liberal arts in the Western tradition -- publishes ARGOS, a cool student e-journal.

Home page of The National Academy for Academic Leadership: Leadership that Transforms Learning ...

ACTA is a nonprofit educational organization committed to academic freedom and excellence on college and university campuses. It supports programs and policies that encourage high academic standards, strong curricula, and the free exchange of ideas.

Tuition-free MIT an exploration of some ideas by Philip Greenspun At Left: Three MIT undergrads and the wardrobe they were able to purchase after paying their term bill. What would the Massachusetts Institute of Technology look like if we did not charge undergraduates tuition First, let's consider how we look now. We set a very high price, sometimes after discussion with or following the lead ...

An eye-opening and well-documented expos&#233 about what could happen to your children when they are sent to even the best colleges in the country. Kors and Silverglate demonstrate that when these colleges, purportedly devoted to liberal education, treat students in disciplinary proceedings, they make the notorious Star Chamber seem liberal in comparison. A wake-up call for parents, students, ...

University Secrets is the full text of a book describing higher education's failure to educate students and its exploitive tranfers of funds. It criticizes grades, SATs, tracking, and housing policies.

Higher education performance Grant Highlights Grantee Press Releases Grantee Reports Newspaper/Magazine Articles Op-eds (grantee) Pew Press Releases Pew-produced Publications Summaries of Reports and Publications more ideas... Campaign finance Journalism K-12 education New immigrants Supporting artists Welfare reform Youth engagement Global warming Religion in pub... The Internet Tracking ...

Here we explore 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.

Rutgers After Lawrence An Open Letter to Eugene O'Hara Dear Mr. O'Hara: As you know, the recent resignation of Francis Lawrence has prompted a great deal of speculation about the future course of Rutgers. Having talked to a large number of students, faculty, and alumni, I sense strong agreement that it is time for everyone who cares about Rutgers -- both those on the Board of Governors who ...

The Student Diversity Program (SDP) at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) is a program primarily concerned with the low rate of graduation among the 'at-risk' student population. The SDP was originally designed to assist African American athletes, but now has expanded to assist 'at-risk' students from within the diverse CSUF student population.

Banking University of Illinois College of Medicine Expose This is brief expose of the practices occurring at the University of Illinois College of Medicine (UICOM) in the 90s. The main problem occurring at the College is that medical students are not allowed to sign or review the clinical evaluations with the preceptors. Hence, it is possible to falsify and alter evaluations, which does occur.