- American Council of Alumni and Trustees-
Committed to academic excellence and reform on campus, and fighting
to stop ideological coercion in higher education.
- Coalition for Higher Education
Act Reform - Recommends revision of the U.S. Higher Education Act
which denies or delays financial aid to students with drug offenses.
- Collegiate Way: Residential Colleges
and Higher Education Reform- Reforming campus life by dividing large
universities into small residential colleges like those at Oxford and
Cambridge.
- Discourse
on Shamefulness - An essay that argues for the traditional literary
canon at the English Department in the University of Houston.
- FAST: Foundation for Academic Standards
& Tradition- Organization of college, university, and high school
students restoring high academic standards and humanistic study of the
liberal arts in the Western tradition.
- Foundation for Individual Rights
in Education- "FIRE is a nonprofit educational foundation devoted
to free speech, individual liberty, religious freedom, the rights of
conscience, legal equality, due process, and academic freedom" in American
universities.
- The Futures Project -
Analysis of the role market forces play in higher education with the
goal of developing and implementing thoughtful, market-oriented policy
options.
- Impact of Internet on Higher
Education - Report examining major university presidents’ perceptions
of the impact of Internet on education & pressures that promote
& inhibit.
- The Irascible Professor
- Irreverent commentary on the state of education in America today,
by Dr. Mark H. Shapiro and guest writers.
- The Learning Community
Commons - The National Learning Communities Project provides cutting-edge
academic learning community work in undergraduate education across the
United States.
- Margit Stange Support Committee
- Academic gender bias lawsuit news with background on gender disparaties
in US universities and equity issues in higher education.
- The National Academy for
Academic Leadership - The academy educates academic decision makers
to be leaders institutional change that improves student learning. Administrators
and faculty will develop the knowledge and skills to effect systemic
institutional change.
- National Alliance for College
Athletics Reform- Dedicated to insuring that big-time college sports
do not compromise the educational missions of colleges and universities.
- The Pew
Charitable Trusts - Reports from research grantees addressing issues
in higher education reform.
- Pope Center for Higher Education
Policy- Conservative public policy organization publishing white
papers and other reports on how to improve higher education. Global
in interest, but having a special emphasis on North Carolina.
- Re-envisioning
the Ph.D. Project - Dedicated to fostering national/international
discussion and initiatives that address the question: How can we re-envision
the Ph.D. to meet the societal needs of the 21st Century?
- Rutgers After
Lawrence: Reforming a Once-Great University - Faculty essay on the
reforms needed at Rutgers University to strengthen academics and reduce
the destructive impact of Division I athletics.
- Shadow University: The Betrayal
of Liberty of America's Campuses- How university administrators,
particularly in campus student affairs divisions, have abridged the
civil liberties of students and faculty members, and what can be done
to redress the problem.
- Student Diversity
Program at Cal State Fullerton - The SDP is designed to address
the retention of "At Risk" students. Using unconventional methods of
intervention, SDP has demonstrated over 90% success at California State
University, Fullerton.
- Student Loan Hell
- Biblical argument for abolishing the ban on student loan bankruptcy
discharge, as well as links to other student loan information sites.
- A Student's-Eye
View of Education's Fall and Decline - Explores why a more innovative
and progressive approach to education is held back by an institutional
mindset that is threatened by, and even hostile to, revolutionary changes.
- Tuition-free
MIT- A radical proposal arguing that schools such as the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, which have many ties to wealthy corporations,
should not charge their students tuition.
- University Secrets: An Indictment
of Higher Education- University Secrets is the full text of a book
describing higher education's failure to educate students and its exploitive
transfers of funds. It criticizes grades, SATs, tracking, and housing
policies.
- Vermont Campus Compact-
A higher education organization promoting greater institutional commitment
to community service, service learning, and local partnerships.
- Vietnam Veterans for Academic Reform
- Calling for reform in higher education against speech codes, political
correctness, multiculturalism, gender feminism, misinformation about
the Vietnam War, and other instruments of academic oppression.
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