Links
The following links and references are for further reading and background information. This list is not intended to be comprehensive. They are grouped by type.
Accreditation, Regulation, and Associations
Commission Reports and Studies
Articles – Higher Education Challenges
Books – Higher Education Challenges
Community, Economic, and Social Changes and Trends
Teaching, Pedagogy, and Technology
Competition and New Forms of Higher Education
Accreditation, Regulation, and Associations
Council for Higher Education Accreditation.
Commission Reports and Studies
Higher Learning Commission. Webpage about new accreditation criteria: http://www.ncahlc.org/information-for-institutions/criteria-for-accreditation.html, to download the complete new criteria as a pdf document: https://content.springcm.com/content/DownloadDocuments.ashx?Selection=Document%2C83424234-f1ae-e011-a52b-001cc448da6a%3B&accountId=5968
Pew Research Foundation. Report: Is College Worth It? College Presidents, Public Assess Value, Quality and Mission of Higher Education http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1993/survey-is-college-degree-worth-cost-debt-college-presidents-higher-education-system Relatively short report on results of surveys of both college presidents and the public regarding higher education.
American Assoc. Community Colleges (AACC). National Commission on Reshaping the Future of Community Colleges. This is the press release explaining the project, membership and plans: http://www.aacc.nche.edu/newsevents/pressreleases/Pages/pr06302011.aspx Link to AACC: http://www.aacc.nche.edu
Michigan Future Inc.and Lou Glaser produce annual reports on Michigan’s transition to a knowledge-based economy, including the challenges for education. The executive summary of the latest (2010) report: http://www.michiganfuture.org/new/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/MiFuture2010ExeSumFINAL.pdf The full report in pdf: http://www.michiganfuture.org/new/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/MiFutureProgressReport10FINAL.pdf
Spellings Commission of U.S. Department of Education. This is 5 years old now, but talks about altered funding stream, accountability, need for innovation, etc Report in pdf format: http://www2.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/hiedfuture/reports/final-report.pdf
Harvard University College of Education Report, Pathways to Prosperity, February 20, 2011. Study discusses needs of the nation to increase completion rates and how the nation is falling behind other nations in developing an educated workforce. http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news_events/features/2011/Pathways_to_Prosperity_Feb2011.pdf
Articles
NPR Talk of the Nation interview transcript with Don Tapscott. Tapscott, co-author with Anthony Williams of Wikinomics and Macrowikinomics discusses how technology and mass collaboration is changing industries, particularly higher education. http://www.npr.org/2011/07/14/137853462/rethinking-how-we-teach-the-net-generation
New York Times and TheTexasTribune.org: Crusading from Outside to Lower College Costs Article telling the story of how Daniel Branch, a former Texas legislator, and his startup myedu.com is helping students to lower college costs through comparison shopping and better degree and studies planning. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/us/03ttmyedu.html
New York Times. Even for Cashiers, College Pays Off. Article with very useful links to studies and data showing how college pays off even if graduates move into fields where college education is not requisite. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/sunday-review/26leonhardt.html
Books
Gunder Myran, Reinventing the Open Door, Famed former professor and former President of Washtenaw CC writes about how community colleges are adopting transformational strategies to “re-invent” the open door, open access model and to respond to the new realities. Order the book from AACC: http://www.aacc.nche.edu/Publications/Pages/Product.aspx?Product_Id=625, Book preview at Google books: http://books.google.com/books/about/Reinventing_the_Open_Door.html?id=uhYZuoKJuI4C
Tapscott and Williams. Macrowikinomics. Discusses how technology and mass collaboration is changing industries, including higher education. Amazon.com link to Tapscott and Williams’s book: http://www.amazon.com/Macrowikinomics-Rebooting-Business-Don-Tapscott/dp/1591843561
Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring, The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out. Very lengthy book discussing the need and ideas for how higher education can adopt new strategies and innovation. First half of the book provides a good history of primarily Harvard and Ricks College. Much of what the book suggests for innovation in higher education is commonplace at community colleges such as LCC, but in the process it explains how many features of modern higher education (tenure, departments, majors, core curriculum, honors, etc) came to be and the costs of such efforts. This book has the attention of many thought leaders (regulators, politicians, and foundation leaders). Amazon book link: http://www.amazon.com/Innovative-University-Changing-Education-Jossey-Bass/dp/1118063481/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1312823383&sr=1-5
Google books preview: http://books.google.com/books?id=0TgxBXu4BZgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Innovative+University:+Changing+the+DNA+of+Higher+Education+from+the+Inside+Out&hl=en&ei=mxlATsytJ8qnsALtooXBBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
Teaching, Pedagogy, and Technology
Competition and New Forms of Higher Education
Western Governors University. School site: http://www.wgu.edu. The wikipedia page describing it and it’s approach: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Governors_University, Inside Higher Education article describing the competency-based approach used by WGU: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/05/09/western_governors_university_and_online_competency_based_learning_model_gain_traction
