Making Reform Work: The Case for Transforming American Higher Education

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Index AAC, see Association of American Colleges AAC&U, see Association of American Colleges and Universities AACRAO, see American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers AACSB, see Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business AAHE, see American Association for Higher Education AASCU, see American Association of State Colleges and Universities AAU, see Association of American Universities ability to pay, 199; vs. willingness to pay, 112 ACA, see Appalachian College Association academic managers, and school governance, 43 academic reform, see reform academic standards, alleged decline in, 31–32 access to college presidents, sale of, 104 access to higher education, 107, 108–110; expansion of, 13; as means to advancement, 218 accountability in higher education, 107, 117–121; culture of, 13; to government, 60 accreditation, 186–187, 207, 211; agencies, 16, 186; of baccalaureate programs, 117; federalization of, 16–17, 118–119; of professional degree programs, 117, 187 ACE, see American Council on Education active learning, 163–164, 166, 170–173 adjunct faculty, 139, 185–186 Adler, Mortimer, 53 admissions standards, raising of, 59 affirmative action, 195 affordability, of higher education, 19, 29, 107, 110–117 African American colleges and universities, 108 AJCU, see Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities Alexander, Lamar, 17 Amazon.com, 153, 155 Ambrose, Susan, 174 American Association for Higher Education (AAHE), 22, 23, 84, 161 229 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), 99–100 American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), 20 American Council on Education (ACE), 19, 104 American University, and Ladner expenses, 96 America’s Choice: High Skills or Low Wages, 30 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and MIT OpenCourseWare Project, 140 anticommodifiers, 38–41, 42, 44, 48 Apollo group, 135 Appalachian College Association (ACA), 139 Arenson, Karen, 12 Aronowitz, Stanley, 41 The Art of Changing the Brain (Zull), 168–173 Association of American Colleges (AAC), 120. See also Association of American Colleges and Universities Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), 26, 120, 154, 161 Association of American Universities (AAU), 20 Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU), 139 Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), 187 athletics, college, 46, 48, 183–184, 207 attainment, academic, 192–197, 217 attrition, student, 124, 193–195 AUQA, see Australian Universities Quality Agency Australian higher education, in Asian market, 131, 142 Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA), 187 baccalaureate programs, European three-year model, 205, 214–215 Bachelor of Health Sciences program, University of Minnesota, Rochester (UMR), 157–159 Basken, Paul, 17–18 Bayh-Dole Act, 46, 51 Behnke, Michael, 52 Bellow, Saul, 53 Bennett, Doug, 87 Berkeley, University of California at, and Novartis contract, 49, 51 Berman, Elizabeth Popp, 50 Bernanos, Georges, 189 BFUG, see Bologna Follow-up Group Blackboard, course management software, 148, 152, 153, 155 blogs, 152; parables from, 105–106 Bloom, Alan, 53, 161 boards of directors, interlocking collegiate-corporate, 96 Bok, Derek, 10–11, 44, 45–50, 55, 105–106, 161–166, 179, 183, 190, 218 Bologna Follow-up Group (BFUG), 205 Bologna Process, 133–136, 204–206 bonuses, executive, at state student loan agencies, 92–95 Bowen, Howard, 47 Bransford, John D., 167 Brody, William, 97, 130 Brown, Ann L., 167 Brown University, 1950s self-reinvention of, 179 Bumsted, Brad, 94 Burt, Lawrence W., 92 Bush, George W., 8 Bush, Vannevar, 218 Business Week business-school ratings, 82–84, 87 Callan, Patrick, 9, 27, 28–29, 37, 58, 66–67, 210 Canadian colleges and universities, 128 Cappelli, Peter, 63 Carleton College, ranking of, 75 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 22, 161 Carnegie Mellon University: Office of Technology for Education, 175, 176; principles, 174–175 Catholic colleges and universities, 108 230 INDEX Center for Learning Innovation (CLI), University of Minnesota, Rochester (UMR), 157–159 CERN, see European Organization for Nuclear Research charades, avoidance of, in reform process, 204 Charlow, David, 92, 99, 100 Chodorow, Stanley, 189 Chronicle of Higher Education: executive compensation tracking by, 95–97; surveys, 2003 and 2004, 69–70 CIC, see Council of Independent Colleges Citibank, and the student loan scandal, 92 citizenship, commitment to, 162 CLA, see Collegiate Learning Assessment Clinton, Bill, 30 Clodfelter, Charles, 44 The Closing of the American Mind (Bloom), 53, 161 clusters, of learning modules, 177 coaching in test-taking strategies, 191 Cocking, Rodney R., 167 COFHE, see Consortium on Financing Higher Education cognitive scientists, and learning, 168–173 Cohen, Randy, 33 “College Issue” (New York Times, Sept. 2007), 33–36 Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA), 23, 86–87 Collegiate...