Following advances for institutional research at the University of Illinois and University of Minnesota during the early twentieth century, interest in offices of institutional research picked up considerably in the 1950s. In particular, state boards demonstrated the power and relevance of institutional research for statewide planning by defining the extrinsicContinue Reading
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
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
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
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
