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New digital texts shake up monograph publishing (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

” In recent years, Brown University Library has expanded its innovation in digital scholarship by pushing beyond the boundaries of the traditional printed monograph. Funding organizations such as the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others, have made much of this innovative scholarship possible.

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Institutional autonomy: does it need an ‘academic community’?

HEPI

This post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. This piece is the second part of two on the topic of institutional autonomy. The first part was published yesterday and is available here.

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SRHE News at 50: Looking back…

SRHE

In early 2013 we hoped that good sense might yet prevail: HEFCE still might, as the Government White Paper suggested, take the lead among the various sector regulatory bodies such as QAA and OIA, all having set their face against the super-merger to create a super-regulator hypothesised but not thought through by the Browne Review.

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Beyond Ideas: Implementing Innovative Structures in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 179 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Dr. Philomena "Philly" Mantella

The Change Leader, Inc.

and, move it upstream, share it between scholarship and infrastructure for more faculty in the program, and then ask the students to knowingly become Corwell scholars, and make a two year commitment. pass on the resources and scholarship funding for the student, and for them to be employed in a paid experiential learning.

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If You Were Designing Cal State Today: A Proposal Out of MIT

eLiterate

I recently ran across a white paper called Ideas for an Affordable New Educational Institution out of MIT’s J-WEL center. While the paper contains no groundbreaking new ideas, the gestalt of it is interesting and timely. To understand the potential role this model could play, we need to review a little history.

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The Supreme Court affirmative action hearings: a guide for the overwhelmed

EAB

Redressing America’s history of racism is, as Thompson Ford has argued, both a more compelling and more specific reason for the consideration of race in admissions than is diversity considered as an “educational good.” Get the white paper. This, as Thompson Ford has suggested , “was the birth of the modern idea of diversity.”.