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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...