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Can Public Research Universities Compete?

Brint, Steven - Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley - 2006

Many leaders of public research universities worry about falling behind private research universities at a time when … provide grounds for a more optimistic view of the competitive position of public research universities. I develop two … "business models" for higher education: the public research university model is based on high volume of enrollments and low cost …

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Costs, Culture, and Complexity: An Analysis of Technology Enhancements in a Large Lecture Course at UC Berkeley

Harley, Diane; Henke, Jonathan; Lawrence, Shannon; … - Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley - 2003

As colleges and universities nationwide anticipate enrolling more than two million new students over the next decade, UC Berkeley is exploring options for serving more students, more cost effectively, in large lecture courses. This research project analyzes economic and pedagogical questions...

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In Praise of Weakness: Chartering, the University of the United States, and Dartmouth College

Trow, Martin - Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley - 2003

This paper explores the proposition that if American higher education has been broadly successful in serving its society, it is in large part because American colleges and universities, and the system of which they are part, were created under conditions of weakness, both academic and financial.

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Superstars and Rookies of the Year: Faculty Hiring Practices in the Postmodern Age

Burgan, Mary - Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley - 2005

Hiring new colleagues is a matter that engages individual faculty members intensely, for peer control of admission to the professoriate has been a highly successful source of academic quality in American higher education. â€œSuper Stars and Rookies of the Yearâ€ analyzes the fixation on...

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Strategies for E-Learning in Universities

Curran, Chris - Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley - 2004

This paper examines the e-learning strategies adopted by universities, from the perspective of three common objectives: widening access to educational opportunity; enhancing the quality of learning; and reducing the cost of higher education. The discussion is illustrated by drawing on case...

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The Carnegie Commission and Council on Higher Education: A Retrospective

Douglass, John Aubrey - Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley - 2005

It has been nearly forty years since Clark Kerr was asked to create and lead the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education under the auspices of the Carnegie Corporation. The Commission was to be a national effort, unprecedented both in scope and in the freedom of its director, Kerr, to guide its...

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The Dynamics of Variable Fees: Exploring Institutional and Public Policy Responses

Ward, David; Douglass, John Aubrey - Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley - 2005

larger movement towards increasing the role of fees in the funding of public universities. This essay describes this …

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Investment Patterns in California Higher Education and Policy Options for a Possible Future

Douglass, John Aubrey - Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley - 2002

What has been the level of public investment in the California higher education system, and how has it performed over …

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Federal, State, and Local Governments: University Patrons, Partners, or Protagonists?

Vest, Charles M - Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley - 2006

on the Berkeley campus. This essay argues that research-intensive public and private universities increasingly have far … public universities has evolved from that of patron to that of partner - sometimes a minor partner financially. Yet at every …

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The Corporation of Learning: Nonprofit Higher Education Takes Lessons from Business

Kirp, David L. - Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley - 2003

through adoption of variants of resource center management (RCM) and the privatization of public higher education at the …

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