Browsing Programs Multimedia by Subject "Accountability, Autonomy, and Politics"
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2006 Elections and Their Effects on Higher Education
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2009 Reaccreditation: A Great Public University
(2007-12-04)Every 10 years, UW?Madison is reaccredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. As part of the 2009 reaccreditation process, the university is conducting a self study ... -
Alumni Data for Program Evaluation, Policy Analysis, and Accountability
(2007-11-13)Research on alumni has traditionally been used to enhance fundraising activities. Increasingly, though, universities and their academic programs need information about alumni -- such as where they live, their income levels, ... -
The Bottom 70 Percent: What America's Elite Institutions of Higher Learning Owe to Everyone Else
(2009-04-23)On February 24th, 2009 President Obama issued a bold call for America to regain its former position as having the most college-educated workforce in the world. To reach that goal, we will have to go where student enrollment ... -
Federal Higher Education Policy in an Election Year
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Hard Times in America's Laboratory for Democracy: Wisconsin Legislative Politics 1966 and Now
(2007-09-11)As a higher education policy analyst at the National Center for Higher Education, Jacob Stampen learned that the health of political systems greatly influence the quality of higher education. However, as a teacher and ... -
Marshalling Resources for Change: System-Level Initiatives to Increase Access and Success
(2008-06-13)Canada has a highly educated population, and its overall rates of participation in postsecondary education are among the highest in the world. The problem of accessibility in Canadian higher education lies not in the overall ... -
Moving from Fiscal Constraint to New State-University Partnerships
(2003-02-26)Across the United States, state funding as a percentage of total university budgets and state per-capital contributions to public universities continue to decline. In this public forum nationally recognized speakers will ... -
Quality Assurance in Higher Education as a Political Process
(2009-05-29)Is quality assurance in higher education a technical process or a political process? Michael Skolnik suggests three reasons why quality assurance should, in many cases, be viewed as a largely political process: 1) ... -
Reexamining the Structure and Funding of Public Higher Education in Wisconsin
(2006-10-26)This forum will examine where Wisconsin stands relative to other states, in the past and present, based on a new measure of state funding for higher education and whether the state and its public universities should consider ... -
Return to the Top: The Role of Increasing College Productivity in America's Quest for Global Leadership in Degree Attainment
(2010-04-20)As America's supply of skilled workers falls behind demand, the country is losing its long-held advantage over competing nations. Many leaders -- most notably President Obama -- have made it a national priority to return ... -
The (Un)Productivity of American Colleges: From "Cost Disease" to Cost-Effectiveness
(2010-03-19)We show that the productivity of American colleges and universities in terms of degree production is plummeting. This is partly due to rising costs that economists typically attribute to Baumol's well known "cost disease," ...