Posts Tagged ‘Philip DiSalvio’
New Directions for Higher Education: Q&A with Lumina’s Merisotis on Increasing College Enrollment and Graduation
by Philip DiSalvio and Journal Staff
June 17, 2013
NEJHE's New Directions for Higher Education examines emerging issues, trends and ideas that have an impact on higher education policies, programs and practices.
The first installment of the series featured Philip DiSalvio, dean of the College of Advancing & Professional Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, interviewing Carnegie Foundation President Anthony Bryk about the future ...
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New Directions for Higher Education: Q&A with Kantrowitz on Scholarships and Debt
by Philip DiSalvio and Journal Staff
May 28, 2013
In April, NEJHE launched its New Directions for Higher Education series to examine emerging issues, trends and ideas that have an impact on higher education policies, programs and practices.
The first installment of the series featured Philip DiSalvio, dean of the College of Advancing & Professional Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, interviewing Anthony Bryk, ...
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New Directions for Higher Education: Q&A with Carnegie Foundation President Anthony Bryk about the Credit Hour
by Philip DiSalvio and Journal Staff
April 29, 2013
NEJHE’s New Directions for Higher Education series examines emerging issues, trends and ideas that have an impact on higher education policies, programs and practices.
The convergence of forces driving change in higher education is transforming the academic enterprise—reinventing what a university is, what a course is, what a student is and what the value of higher ...
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Seeking New Directions: Be Part of a Bold NEJHE Series Exploring Models that Will Change Higher Ed Forever
by John O. Harney
February 12, 2013
The New England Journal of Higher Education (NEJHE) invites you to be part of a new series examining emerging issues, trends, innovations and ideas that will make a profound impact on higher education in New England and globally.
The series called “New Directions for Higher Education” will feature interviews with key visionaries by Philip DiSalvio, dean ...
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Bubble Wrap: Higher Education and the Value Gap
by Philip DiSalvio
November 20, 2012
A recent report by the College Board might be an indicator of how fast the sands of higher education are shifting. The prices that most people actually pay for college, which had remained stable for several years, are on the rise again, as tuition and other cost increases outpace financial aid awards.
In its latest annual ...
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Pardon the Disruption … Innovation Changes How We Think About Higher Education
by Philip DiSalvio
September 4, 2012
The first online course from MITx titled 6.002x: Circuits and Electronics, offered earlier this year, had more students than the entire number of living students who have graduated from the university. Indeed, that number is not far from the total of all the students enrolled there since the 19th century.
MIT reports that 155,000 people registered ...
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Shifting Landscapes, Changing Assumptions Reshape Higher Ed
by Philip DiSalvio
June 11, 2012
In 1852, Massachusetts became the first state to provide all its citizens access to a free public education. Over the next 66 years, every other state made the same guarantee. Based on a factory-model classroom and inspired in part by the approach Horace Mann saw in Prussia in 1843, it seemed to adequately prepare American ...
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Will MITx Change How We Think About Higher Education?
by Philip DiSalvio
February 6, 2012
While many colleges and universities are trying to adapt to the forces affecting higher education today, a recent move by the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology is about to cause a seismic shift.
The prototype version of MITx is scheduled for launch in spring 2012. MITx is an outgrowth of MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), which began in ...
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New Directions for Higher Education: Q&A with ACE’s Molly Corbett Broad on Attainment
by Philip DiSalvio and Journal Staff
July 9, 2013
In April, NEJHE launched its New Directions for Higher Education series to examine emerging issues, trends and ideas that have an impact on higher education policies, programs and practices.
The first installment of the series featured Philip DiSalvio, dean of the College of Advancing & Professional Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, interviewing Carnegie Foundation ...
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