International Migration of Students in the Context of Globalization Memo 12 (Week 13) Gordon (Guoping) Feng, 12/04/2014 Jones and Gopaul (2012) draw out two major themes from a literature review of doctoral education in Canada: student mobility, and hierarchy of institutions. I ...
I (Is admission a profession or business? To ensure admission or full aid) Jump, J. W. (1995). The Ethics of Need-Blind Admission. Journal of College Admission , 147 , 12-15. Jump begins his article with a philosophical question: Is college admission to be a profession or a c ...
A magic in improving retention and possibly also graduation rates---UT Austin’s experiment Poor retention and graduation rates are a perennial headache for American higher education. According to a latests report issued by Complete College America ( http://completecollege.org/wp-content ...
Qualitative and Mixed Methods: Advantages and Disadvantages Weekly Researcher Journal—Week 9-10 Guoping Feng, 11/12/2014 1. Reflective reading responses In the past two weeks, we kept receiving input of theoretical grounding on research methods. Guba and Lincoln (200 ...
A Ranking of Billionaire-making Universities A new global ranking of prestige (and also real money!) for universities has come out: How many billionaires does your alma mater produce? According to the Wealth-X and UBS Billion2014 , the top 20 billionaire-makers are as follows: Rank ...
American College Students: Going Average Memo 11 (Week 12) Gordon (Guoping) Feng, 11/18/2014 With American higher education heading to universal enrollment, college students and graduates are no longer an elite group, but increasingly resemble the “average” American (Igo, 2007, ...
The American Professoriate: Going Away from Tenure Memo 10 (Week 11) Gordon (Guoping) Feng, 11/13/2014 From its origin, the university has been a community of scholars. The unique tenure system created in the USA a century ago has played a big role in protecting academic freedom a ...