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Excuse a rant today, but further evidence of dry rot in the higher education enterprise has wafted my way. A dear friend told me that while serving as a reviewer of applications for a prestigious (as in well-known) national award she was struck by a lack accumen in providing evidence of program success. One unnamed [...] I’m much encouraged by the post in Inside HIgherEd this morning on Indiana’s decision to be strategic in making budget cuts in higher education. Would that other states have this courage in hard times. The usual approach is to treat all institutions “about” the same. That is, fund them all equally in good times [...] …despite the newness of western-style higher education in this ancient land, most of the MENA attendees were seasoned [...] The drum beat for more “scientific evaluation techniques” has become a mantra in higher education [...] Of course, if you don’t know what the old way of doing business costs, you’ll never know the value of the new way. I’ve shaken my head many a time at the disconnect between being innovative and knowing–with actual cost data–that we’re dong [...] |
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