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Quants at the Gate: The Unique Education of Actuaries

Jay A. Halfond and Lois K. Horwitz
August 27, 2012

Universities typically emerge as gatekeepers of the professions, by wresting control over the training and certification that is required. The process generally begins outside academe—with apprenticeships and voluntary associations—and evolves toward a new norm of academic credit and degrees. Faculty then become the experts who determine the body of knowledge budding professionals need to know ...
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Coverage of NEJHE and NEBHE

John O. Harney
July 23, 2012

Coverage of NEBHE and The New England Journal of Higher Education

Boston-based Ed Tech Times Re-Posts NEJHE Q&A on Credit Hour

California-based InsideTrack Re-Posts NEJHE Q&A with ACE Prez on Attainment

Carnegie Foundation Cites NEJHE Q&A with Merisotis

New England Diary Re-Posts Harney on Demography, Combe on Loans

ProJo's This New England Re-Posts Lindsay on Ranking Colleges on ROI

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The Vanishing Neighborhood Campus

Jay A. Halfond
May 14, 2012

Only a generation ago, universities like Northeastern and Boston University had campuses strategically sprinkled throughout eastern Massachusetts. Lesley University offered graduate education programs across the U.S. BU had a contract with the U.S. Army to deliver master’s programs on military bases throughout Europe. Mega-high-tech companies, like Digital Equipment Corp., volunteered their corporate classrooms to ...
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Just Like Starting Over: Advice for Faculty to Make the New Semester’s Teaching Endure

Jay A. Halfond
January 16, 2012

Sometimes when passing through a classroom building, I glance in at a class in session and try to gauge by students’ faces whether the instructor has them engaged or not. Through their facial expressions, you can see whether they are caught up in the class or struggling not to drift away in their thoughts or ...
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Projecting Project Management’s Future Within the Academic Landscape

Jay A. Halfond
November 28, 2011

U.S. universities have had century-long success in absorbing existing professions into their curricula—by making academe their gatekeeper. These professions often started with apprenticeships and short training courses leading to a certification examination—and were then elevated and “academized” into a comprehensive body of knowledge, fueled by evidence-based scholarship, led by university faculty, and offered to students ...
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From Kitchen to Classroom: The Serious Study of Food

Jay A. Halfond
October 5, 2011

When Jacques Pépin accepted his honorary doctorate from Boston University this past May, he made note of this truly symbolic moment. While his proposed dissertation focus on food had once been rejected by Columbia University as academically unworthy, a leading university was now granting him a doctorate for his work as a celebrated author, chef and ...
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Unintended Consequences: An Uncertain Future for Distance Learning

Jay A. Halfond
June 9, 2011

While most in the academic community know about the attempt to rein in the for-profits, few are aware of its collateral damage. In October, the Department of Education issued its Program Integrity Rules, intended to protect federal funds especially from those for-profit institutions with high student loan default rates. Well-intentioned though this was, the DOE ...
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From Fortress to Vista on the World

Jay A. Halfond
May 2, 2011

When it comes to creating an international campus, America’s universities are far better at welcoming faculty and students from abroad—and sending students to study abroad—than in truly elevating global consciousness. Simply having foreign individuals on campus doesn’t make global citizens of the rest of us. Exposure is hardly sufficient. Like wallflowers at a dance, there ...
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Don’t Sweat the Big Stuff: Academic Innovation in all Shapes and Sizes

Jay A. Halfond
April 5, 2011

To listen as many of us incessantly complain, one would think academe is chronically resistant to change, new ideas and innovative programs. We often hear the smaller the stakes, the greater the petty battles—no opportunity is too minute to stall and impede. Before tenure, junior faculty need to be protected while they build their publications ...
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