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Direct linkShaw, Jane S. – Academic Questions, 2011
The problem facing American colleges and universities is larger than even the term "bubble" implies. A bursting bubble would force change on the more than four thousand postsecondary institutions in the United States, but something even more destructive is going to hit higher education, probably at the same time. The major sign that a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Enrollment, Tuition
Download full textLingenfelter, Paul E. – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2009
New Englanders have been well-served by the region's higher education legacy. They tend to be better-educated and more prosperous than the rest of the nation, and the cultural life in their cities and towns is exceptionally rich. But New England dares not rest on its laurels. The growing demand for even greater levels of educational attainment in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Attainment, Public Colleges, Public Policy
Chaput, Catherine – College English, 2004
Nineteenth century consciousness is traced to demonstrate a public recognition of corpoatization of education through Willa Cather novels, which rely on the rhetoric of frontiers to promote university education within a democratic ethos. It is argued that a previously democratic stage of the university, uncontaminated by the profit motive of…
Descriptors: Novels, Democratic Values, Democracy, Public Colleges
Skolnik, Michael L. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 1990
A study of political, behavioral, and institutional differences between Canada and the United States is seen as offering an explanation of the considerable differences in higher education in the two countries. Focus is on priority given to education, incidence of public and private institutions, innovation, accreditation, and academic freedom.…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Accreditation (Institutions), Comparative Education, Cultural Differences
Reed, Jr., Adolph; Szymanski, Sharon – Academe, 2004
The crisis of affordability in higher education is intensifying. Illustrations of its resonance abound: from the frequent news articles describing and amplifying the crisis and its sources to legislators' and candidates' proposed responses. Republicans' responses tend to be mainly punitive toward institutions; Democrats' proposals are more…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Public Colleges, Paying for College
McDaniel, Olaf C. – 1991
One of a series of studies related to the Delphi research project: "Policy Instruments for Higher Education in the Western Europe of the Future", this paper presents interviews by a Dutch researcher with 15 authorities on U.S. higher education and the written contributions of two other experts: M. Peterson, E. Hines, M. Gade, G. Rhoades,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Delphi Technique, Educational Policy, Educational Quality
