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Whither alternative (and improved) credentialing?

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I recently served on a panel at a meeting organized by the California Higher Education Innovation Council to look at " Alternative Credentials and Unbundling the Degree: Meeting Employer Needs or Short-Circuiting Proven Approaches?" Our panel was challenged beforehand by its moderator, Ryan Craig, to imagine how conditions had to change over the next decade in order for alternative credentialing ("e.g. nanodegrees and badges" according to the meeting invitation) to become a major force in high

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Reflections on Tenure in Canada vs Wisconsin

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This entry is available at Inside Higher Ed as well. ~~~~~~. In the context of some intense debates about tenure in the University of Wisconsin System, and at UW-Madison, I’ve been acquiring some interesting information and views about tenure and related governance matters in Canada vs Wisconsin. Reflections and data have been kindly provided by Canadian leaders representing faculty and university administrative bodies, both nationally and in select universities.

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Baumol, Walker, and Xerxes

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In the introduction to Athanasius: On the Incarnation De Incarnatione Verbi Dei , C.S. Lewis discusses the predilection that some people have to spend a considerable amount of time reading about an idea instead of simply reading the idea itself. An optimist, Lewis attributes this to humility on the part of readers who are hesitant to believe that they can directly confront and understand big ideas.

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Blog roundup: Our most popular posts of the past 12 months

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We're celebrating 12 months of blog posts! Lots of great Higher Education digital marketing examples, tips and ideas.

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California still not addressing the workforce gap - plus ca change

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Five years ago in a post , I described a thesis study by Lauren Cooper on potential solutions to the looming workforce gap in California. Her analysis was based primarily on projections of California workforce needs in 2025 made by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC). Dr Cooper's analysis of the CSU - level workforce shortfall suggested that CSU needed to open 12 new campuses by 2025 to meet needs - an unlikely solution to the problems given the finances of California.

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"Baumol's cost disease" is the answer to a different question

Changing Higher Education

In 1966, William Baumol and William Bowen looked at the origins of rising salaries for live performances (music, theater, dance), and noted that an underlying issue was that such performances could not easily be made more efficient - productivity could not be increased ( Baumol and Bowen , Wikopedia ). The oft-quoted ( and quite convincing) formulation of this concept is that a Beethoven quartet must be performed by exactly the same number of musicians today as was required in the 19th century,

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Arizona State University and edX open a new frontier- maybe

Changing Higher Education

Arizona State University (ASU) and edX recently announced a joint project to offer an online freshman year with full official credit from ASU - The Global Freshman Academy : “We’re going to have 12 new courses, of which students will take eight,” Mr. Crow (President of ASU) said. “They have to be constructed at a fantastic level of digital immersion, not just talking heads.

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