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International President announces fee-free undergraduate education | Defying the advice of the commission he appointed to look into the issue of fee-free higher education, South African President Jacob Zuma on Saturday 16 December announced in a statement that the African National Congress-led government would introduce fully subsidised free higher educationContinue Reading

Cover | Outsourcing Student Success

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: Historia|Research Press 312-818-8849 contact@historiaresearch.com Is Outsourcing Student Success the Future of Higher Education? Chicago, Illinois – December 19, 2017 – Higher education has engaged in a bewildering succession of reform efforts to improve institutional performance and student success in higher education since theContinue Reading

Cover | Outsourcing Student Success

One hundred years have passed since the founding of the Bureau of Institutional Research at the University of Illinois. If the UI bureau and University of Minnesota bureau are the origins of institutional research, the California higher education system demonstrated its power and relevance to statewide planning. While the politicalContinue Reading

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International Can Sexual Predators Be Good Scholars? | Arendt’s vision of artistic retribution is comforting. If literature or scholarship reflected its author’s moral failings, brutality would contravene brilliance: Wrongdoing would amount to its own punishment. We would never have to confront the galling affront of a beautiful thought birthed byContinue Reading

Cover Subtitle | Outsourcing Student Success

The Chronicle of Higher Education published an article on the field of institutional research at a crossroads on August 31, 2017: https://www.chronicle.com/article/Higher-Ed-s-Data-Experts/241079. In this article, the Chronicle reprints a narrative created by the AIR leadership to advance what it calls its “new vision.” Unfortunately, in support of this narrative, theContinue Reading