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Imagine that the U.S. government imposed a new health care regulation requiring that patients presenting with certain symptoms spend a minimum length of time in treatment in order for the service to qualify for reimbursement via Medicare or Medicaid.Looking up from the bottom...
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Visiting a university in the UK last week, we stumbled upon this description in the regional guidebook found in the hotel room:
"Another great local attraction is Southwell Workhouse, which is the most complete workhouse...
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Moneycollege - Inside Higher Education - October 11, 2011
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Here are two interesting and seemingly unrelated developments since our last newsletter:
1) A front page story in the New York Times on how the rise in technology in education is not having any discernible impact on student learning...
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In a prior newsletter, we situated higher education at the base of an arduous and inexorable climb up the mountain of ROI - return on investment. Unprecedented reductions in state funding of university and community college systems have already started many institutions on...
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The enactment of the Gainful Employment Regulations ("GER") was heralded by the U.S. Department of Education ("DOE") as a landmark accomplishment in the effort to protect students from predatory practices of for-profit institutions of higher education. Re-interpreting...
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If you've read anything about public higher education in the past month or two, chances are it was about budget cuts.
While those of us in higher education are well aware of this fact, it bears repeating: fully 70% of the 18 million students...
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Clay Christensen's attention to disruptive innovations has recently focused on higher education. He identified disruptive influences that are already perched on the doorstep of the academy. The conclusion of his analysis is consistent with his landmark study: industry participants will...
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An article from the Sunday New York Times at the end of June provides support for the proposition that the crisis in higher education is just as acute as the more publicized crisis in K-12, and may prove to be more pertinent to the question being asked throughout America...
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