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Massy, William F.; Sullivan, Teresa A.; Mackie, Christopher – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2013
Higher education is a critical element of the American economy, because of both its benefits and its costs to individuals and taxpayers. Yet we know very little about the relationships between the things colleges and universities do and the resources they need to do them. Currently, shrinking public support and increasing tuition make it urgent…
Descriptors: Measurement, Productivity, Higher Education, Costs
McCall, Michael B. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2013
When colleges turned to online learning, they opened the door for a number of students who might have only dreamed of pursuing a degree or credential. In 2006, the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) surveyed prospective adult students without a college degree and discovered that they were three times more likely to enroll in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Electronic Learning, Barriers, Family Needs
Arnold, David L. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2011
Accrediting agencies, legislators, pundits, and even higher educational professionals have become enamored with applying the language of continuous improvement to learning outcomes. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges specifically uses the term "continuing improvement" in Core Standard 2.5, one of its…
Descriptors: Institutional Evaluation, Quality Control, Alignment (Education), Adoption (Ideas)
Brown, Roger – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2011
Although many of the recommendations in "A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education" (the Spellings Commission report) have still to be implemented, policy makers' insistence that American colleges and universities measure student learning outcomes in a way that permits comparisons seems unlikely to go away. Nor…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Autonomy, Academic Standards, Quality Control

Miller, Margaret A. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2005
In this article, the author describes how Change magazine finds new editorial home after the demise of the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE). The demise of the AAHE is an incalculable loss to higher education. But the Change transition team approached the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching about the possibility of…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Administration, Philanthropic Foundations, Higher Education
Floud, Roderick – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2006
This article describes and discusses the Bologna Process, an agreement among the education ministries and the universities and colleges of 45 European countries to create the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) by 2010. At the core of the agreement is the decision that all higher education institutions in Europe will adopt the three-tiered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Academic Degrees, Academic Achievement
Daniel, John; Kanwar, Asha; Uvalic-Trumbic, Stamenka – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2006
Europeans lament that their universities are lagging behind those in the United States, while Americans worry that their academic leadership is threatened by complacency. Both groups, however, are missing the tectonic shift that will transform the map of higher education worldwide--the growth of universities in the developing world. Spreading…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Development, Developing Nations, Educational Change