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The Great Upheaval: Higher Education's Past, Present, and Uncertain Future
By Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt In January of 2015, Arthur and Scott met for the first time at a small restaurant in New York’s West Village. Arthur was seeking a research assistant to help with a new book on the future of higher education, and Scott, a...
What Should Guide the Decision for Institutional Merger or Acquisition in Higher Education? Student Success and Opportunity
By Ricardo Azziz and James E. Samels As would be predicted by a landscape characterized by declining enrollment, negative demographics, excess capacity, and increasing fiscal pressures, all exacerbated by a pandemic of historic proportions, there has been much...
Essential Documents in the History of American Higher Education, Second Edition – Q&A with author John Thelin
Why did you write Essential Documents in the History of American Higher Education? JHUP Editorial Director Greg Britton and I discussed this and agreed that our aim was to transform the history of American higher education from a spectator sport into an active...
Anchoring Innovation Districts: The Entrepreneurial University and Urban Change
In the spring of 2017, I had an opportunity to learn about Technology Square (Tech Square) in Midtown, Atlanta. I spent a year as part of a fellowship at Georgia Institute of Technology in the Office of the Provost. Tech Square was a university initiative that...
Building Gender Equity in the Academy: Institutional Strategies for Change
Addressing the complex challenges facing the world requires the scientific and technical expertise of many people whose diverse talents can make a difference. Universities and colleges contribute to that work through research, teaching, and public engagement...
Learning Innovation and the Future of Higher Education: Q&A with authors Joshua Kim and Edward Maloney
“We wrote this book to open up a conversation about how colleges and universities might evolve their institutions to better align teaching practices with the emerging science of learning.” That sentence is from our recently published book, Learning Innovation...
