My daily selection of the most interesting news on the internets:
- Challenges and threats to top institutions – Most institutions at the top of the rankings clearly value a truly international student community, bringing together people with a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures to create a rich learning environment.
- Socrates in the Boardroom: Why Research Universities Should Be Led by Top Scholars. – Socrates in the Boardroom argues that world-class scholars, not administrators, make the best leaders of research universities. Amanda Goodall cuts through the rhetoric and misinformation swirling around this contentious issue–such as the assertion that academics simply don't have the managerial expertise needed to head the world's leading schools–using hard evidence and careful, dispassionate analysis. She shows precisely why experts need leaders who are experts like themselves.
- The Spaces Between Numbers: Getting International Data on Higher Education Straight – The research report, The Spaces Between Numbers: Getting International Data on Higher Education Straight, reveals that U.S. graduation rates remain comparable to those of other developed countries despite news stories about our nation losing its global competitiveness because of slipping college graduation rates.
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