The latest ranking of the world’s best universities released Wednesday shows the United States’ traditional lead has slipped a bit.
The Times Higher Education’s annual ranking of the top 200 universities worldwide includes 63 American institutions, down from 74 the year before. The U.S. still has 14 of the top 20 schools, however. Times Higher Education, a London-based magazine, credited America’s slip to a “surge of innovative European and Chinese schools.”
Hello all, today there was an interesting article in the Chronicle for Higher Education related to our discussion on why college shouldn’t be seen as a commodity.
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Dear Colleagues,
For our class this Tuesday (October 20th), you might find my blog posting on CUNY’s expansion of its ASAP Program interesting. Chancellor J.B. Milliken announced it yesterday. My posting can be found at: http://apicciano.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/10/17/cuny-announces-expansion-of-asap-to-increase-graduation-rates-at-community-colleges/
Tony
Dear Colleagues,
For our session tomorrow evening, Robin and Volera sent us bullet points and questions that can be found at:
https://higheredissues.commons.gc.cuny.edu/files/2015/10/Week-V-Questions-from-Robin-and-Volera.doc
Tony
Dear Colleagues,
The latest ranking of the world’s best universities released Wednesday shows the United States’ traditional lead has slipped a bit.
The Times Higher Education’s annual ranking of the top 200 universities worldwide includes 63 American institutions, down from 74 the year before. The U.S. still has 14 of the top 20 schools, however. Times Higher Education, a London-based magazine, credited America’s slip to a “surge of innovative European and Chinese schools.”
You can read more about this on my blog at:
http://apicciano.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/10/01/united-states-slips-a-bit-in-latest-world-rankings-of-universities/
Ton
Hi Everyone,
President Obama announced yesterday that he was ending his two-year effort to have the government create a system that explicitly rates the quality of the nation’s colleges and universities, a plan that was bitterly opposed by presidents at many of those institutions. See more at my blog at: http://apicciano.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/09/13/president-obama-to-abandon-college-ranking-system/
Tony
Dear Colleagues,
In class on Tuesday, we discussed the possibilities of free community college. Yesterday President Obama pushed the idea as a follow up to his proposal during the State of the Union speech in January. For further details, see my blog posting at: http://apicciano.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/09/10/president-obama-pushes-for-free-community-college/
Tony
Hello all, today there was an interesting article in the Chronicle for Higher Education related to our discussion on why college shouldn’t be seen as a commodity.
“Why College is Not a Commodity” can be found online at: http://chronicle.com/article/Why-College-Is-Not-a-Commodity/233011/
Thanks for this posting, Janey,
We will discuss commoditization again on October 13th.
Tony