BRIEF For-profit Laureate sells St. Augustine for $400M, holds onto Walden U By Ben Unglesbee, Feb. 7, 2019 Dive Brif For-profit college operator Laureate Education has completed a sale of its University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences (USAHS) school to the...
Polarización de la riqueza entre universidades de USA
This Is Higher Education’s Gilded Age Natalya Balnova for The Chronicle Review By Brian Rosenberg FEBRUARY 03, 2019 PREMIUM Michael Bloomberg announced in November that he was making a gift of $1.8 billion to his alma mater, the Johns Hopkins University. For the...
Religiones en la educación superior de los EEUU
‘The Resilience of Religion in American Higher Education’ Authors discuss new book about the diversity and strength of religion in academe -- as well as some of the tensions. By Scott Jaschik January 11, 2019 0 COMMENTS William F. Buckley Jr.'s 1951 book God and Man...
Is US higher education in crisis?, Steven Brint
Is US higher education in crisis? Many observers perceive US higher education to be in trouble. They’re missing the big picture, says Steven Brint January 3, 2019 By Steven Brint Even those who are not immersed in the world of higher education are familiar with the...
Enseñanza personalizada: qué está ocurriendo
The Backlash Against Personalized Learning Tuesday, December 11, 2018 Newsletter Students at the Secondary School for Journalism in Brooklyn, New York walked out of class to protest it. Another New York City public school dumped it. And in Cheshire, Connecticut, the...
Enseñanza de las artes liberales: Innovaciones
Re:Learning Tuesday, December 11, 2018 Sign up for this newsletter I’m Goldie Blumenstyk, a senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education, covering innovation in and around academe. Here’s what I’m thinking about this week: Three takes on success for liberal-arts...
El cambio de la universidad como institución formativa
How Professors Ceded Their Authority Education and moral purpose have parted ways By Chad Wellmon November 20, 2018 PREMIUM In 1904, while touring the eastern half of the United States, the German sociologist Max Weber encountered an institution that would intrigue...
Entrevista con Steven Pinker
Looking Bright The Harvard psychologist says he is no starry-eyed optimist. It’s just that the data don’t lie. Steven Pinker, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard University, maintains that by objective measures the world is heading in the right direction.CreditKayana...
Empleabilidad de graduados en USA
Young Americans need to be taught skills, not handed credentials | Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/e5b1cba6-e41d-11e8-8e70-5e22a430c1ad 1/4 Rana Foroohar, 11/11/2018 I cannot think of a market that is more dysfunctional in America right now than education....
Más sobre discriminacion en U de Harvard, Alex Usher
HARVARD ON TRIAL NOVEMBER 5, 2018 | ALEX USHER If you’re at all interested in American higher education, you’ll no doubt have been paying some attention these last couple of weeks to the Harvard Admissions Trial. On the off chance you haven’t, here’s a quick re-cap:...
Nuevas contribuciones al debate sobre financiamiento estudiantil
Nuevos aportes al debate sobre la propuesta de financiamiento de la educación superior y condonación parcial del CAE....
Calidad del profesorado en la educación superior
La calidad del profesorado en la educación superior: un reto mundial En el Instituto Internacional de la UNESCO para...
Nuevos aportes al debate sobre financiamiento estudiantil
En días pasados hemos presentado diversos puntos de vista sobre esta materia, Visiones sobre financiamiento...
Visiones sobre financiamiento estudiantil: Alarcón, De Gregorio, Martner, Schaulsohn, Devés, Peña, Vasquez, Figueroa
Virtudes, peligros y oportunidades del proyecto de condonación del CAE y creación del FES para la educación superior...