The "Higher Education Reform" category is for websites devoted to questioning and changing established educational practices in colleges and universities. They may recommend, for example, changes in teaching methods, admissions, or administrative practices; improvements to textbooks, schedules, or curricula; reforms of campus life; and so on.
A higher education organization promoting greater institutional commitment to community service, service learning, and local partnerships www.middlebury.edu/~vcc
"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. www.thefire.org/index.php3
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. www.shadowuniv.com
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. universitysecrets.com
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. www.popecenter.org
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. philip.greenspun.com/school/tuition-free-mit.html
Analysis of the role market forces play in higher education with the goal of developing and implementing thoughtful, market-oriented policy options. www.futuresproject.org
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. edutrue.tripod.com/b-files/decline.html
Report examining major university presidents' perceptions of the impact of Internet on education & pressures that promote & inhibit. members.aol.com/rebryn
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. www.fullerton.edu/studentdiversity
The National Learning Communities Project provides cutting-edge academic learning community work in undergraduate education across the United States. learningcommons.evergreen.edu
Dedicated to fostering national/international discussion and initiatives that address the question: How can we re-envision the Ph.D. to meet the societal needs of the 21st Century? www.grad.washington.edu/envision
The academy educates academic decision makers to be leaders institutional change that improves student learning. Administrators and faculty will develop the knowledge and skills to effect systemic institutional change. www.thenationalacademy.org
Faculty essay on the reforms needed at Rutgers University to strengthen academics and reduce the destructive impact of Division I athletics. www.rci.rutgers.edu/~wcd/oharalet.htm
Biblical argument for abolishing the ban on student loan bankruptcy discharge, as well as links to other student loan information sites. geocities.com/studentloanhell
Providing case study analysis and informed opinions about higher education policy and works to assist students and the general public to understand key issues that affect them. www.uedge.org
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