Higher Education Reform
Higher Education Reform Links
- National Alliance for College Athletics Reform Dedicated to insuring that big-time college sports do not compromise the educational missions of colleges and universities.
- FAST: Foundation for Academic Standards & Tradition Organization of college, university, and high school students devoted to high academic standards and humanistic study of the liberal arts in the Western tradition.
- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education "FIRE is a nonprofit educational foundation devoted to free speech, individual liberty, religious freedom, the rights of conscience, legal equality, due process, and academic freedom" in American universities.
- Student Diversity Program at Cal State Fullerton The SDP is designed to address the retention of "At Risk" students. Using unconventional methods of intervention, SDP has demonstrated over 90% success at California State University, Fullerton.
- Impact of Internet on Higher Education Report examining major university presidents perceptions of the impact of Internet on education & pressures that promote & inhibit.
- Margit Stange Support Committee Academic gender bias lawsuit news with background on gender disparaties in US universities and equity issues in higher education.
- Coalition for Higher Education Act Reform Recommends revision of the U.S. Higher Education Act which denies or delays financial aid to students with drug offenses.
- Foundation Coalition An NSF-sponsored initiative funding systemic reform in undergraduate engineering education at seven schools.
- Willimon Report on Student Life In this follow-up to Willimon & Naylor's important book The Abandoned Generation, Willimon describes the continuing poverty of campus life and recommends further improvements.
- University Secrets: An Indictment of Higher Education University Secrets is the full text of a book describing higher education's failure to educate students and its exploitive transfers of funds. It criticizes grades, SATs, tracking, and housing policies.
- The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty of America's Campuses How university administrators, particularly in campus student affairs divisions, have abridged the civil liberties of students and faculty members, and what can be done to redress the problem.
- American Council of Alumni and Trustees Committed to academic excellence and freedom of expression in higher education.
- Vermont Campus Compact A higher education organization promoting greater institutional commitment to community service, service learning, and local partnerships
- Tuition-free MIT A radical proposal arguing that schools such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which have many ties to wealthy corporations, should not charge their students tuition.
- The Futures Project Analysis of the role market forces play in higher education with the goal of developing and implementing thoughtful, market-oriented policy options.
- The Pew Charitable Trusts Reports from research grantees addressing issues in higher education reform.
- Pope Center for Higher Education Policy Conservative public policy organization publishing white papers and other reports on how to improve higher education. Global in interest, but having a special emphasis on North Carolina.
- The Collegiate Way: Residential Colleges and Higher Education Reform Reforming campus life by dividing large universities into small residential colleges like those at Oxford and Cambridge.
- A Student's-Eye View of Education's Fall and Decline Explores why a more innovative and progressive approach to education is held back by an institutional mindset that is threatened by, and even hostile to, revolutionary changes.
- Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship Goals, activities, newsletter, membership info, and articles on current issues from SAFS, which seeks to uphold academic freedom and high standards against political correctness at universities in Canada.
- The Irascible Professor Irreverent commentary on the state of education in America today, by Dr. Mark H. Shapiro and guest writers.
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