全球化背景下的学生国际流动

冯国平 2014-12-29 12:59

International Migration of Students in the Context of Globalization Memo 12 (Week 13) Gordon (Guoping) Feng, 12/04/2014 Jones and Gopaul (2012) draw out two major themes from a literature review of doctoral education in Canada: student mobility, and hierarchy of institutions. I ...

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美国大学的“盲录”及提前录取政策

冯国平 2014-12-29 12:58

I (Is admission a profession or business? To ensure admission or full aid) Jump, J. W. (1995). The Ethics of Need-Blind Admission. Journal of College Admission , 147 , 12-15. Jump begins his article with a philosophical question: Is college admission to be a profession or a c ...

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提高大学学生保持率及毕业率的魔法—德州大学奥斯汀分校的实验

冯国平 2014-12-29 12:52

A magic in improving retention and possibly also graduation rates---UT Austin’s experiment Poor retention and graduation rates are a perennial headache for American higher education. According to a latests report issued by Complete College America ( http://completecollege.org/wp-content ...

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大学校友亿万富翁排行榜

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A Ranking of Billionaire-making Universities A new global ranking of prestige (and also real money!) for universities has come out: How many billionaires does your alma mater produce? According to the Wealth-X and UBS Billion2014 , the top 20 billionaire-makers are as follows: Rank ...

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美国大学生：走向普通

冯国平 2014-12-28 00:23

American College Students: Going Average Memo 11 (Week 12) Gordon (Guoping) Feng, 11/18/2014 With American higher education heading to universal enrollment, college students and graduates are no longer an elite group, but increasingly resemble the “average” American (Igo, 2007, ...

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美国大学教职：远离终身教职制度

冯国平 2014-12-28 00:21

The American Professoriate: Going Away from Tenure Memo 10 (Week 11) Gordon (Guoping) Feng, 11/13/2014 From its origin, the university has been a community of scholars. The unique tenure system created in the USA a century ago has played a big role in protecting academic freedom a ...

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不断走低的水准与随波逐流的学生：所有人上大学的目标是否过高？

冯国平 2014-12-28 00:19

Book Review Lowering Higher Education and Academically Adrift Students: Is “College for all” Too High an Ideal? Gordon (Guoping) Feng, 11/16/2014 Since World War II, access has become so central a theme in American higher education that today it’s taken for granted in American public ...

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德国职业教育模式进入美国

冯国平 2014-12-28 00:12

The German Vocational Education Model Enters the USA 11/13/2014 As reported in this USA Today news, many high schools and community colleges are opening manufacturing tracks for the students, and the job prospects are promising: one 19 year old landed a $12-an-hour job last year afte ...

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