Posts Tagged ‘universities’
Book Review: Moral Victories?
by Joseph M. Cronin
September 19, 2011
Moral Problems in Higher Education, Steven Cahn, editor, Temple University Press, 2011.
“Few philosophers have shown much interest in examining the moral problems …” in academe, their own bailiwick, complains Steven Cahn, a philosopher and former president of The Graduate School and University Center at the City University of New York (CUNY).
Cahn initiated a course in ...
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Trends & Indicators: NE Universities Still R&D Powerhouses
by John O. Harney
March 10, 2011
New England universities performed more than $4 billion worth of research and development in 2009, but the region’s share of total R&D performed by all U.S. universities remained at 7.3%, down from more than 10% in the 1980s.
The region's university research labs have been world-famous for ideas that breed companies and whole ...
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The Profit Prophets in Higher Education
by Jay A. Halfond
September 30, 2010
The nation seems to have suddenly awoken to the reality that for-profit academic institutions are a force to be reckoned with. For so long, they have been ignored as inconsequential, second-rate competition, and vilified for their greed and lack of quality. Two events seemed to have changed their image into something far more formidable: the ...
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Trends & Indicators: College Success
by Journal Staff
November 6, 2012
Updated November 2012
New England’s traditional public and private nonprofit colleges and universities conferred more than 201,000 degrees at all levels in 2010—or more than 6% of the U.S. total, compared with the region's less than 5% of the U.S. population. However, those traditional public and private nonprofit colleges make up an ever-smaller portion of the ...
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