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- A Student's-Eye View of Education's Fall and Decline - Explores why a more innovative and progressive approach to education is held back by an institutional mindset that is threatened by, and even hostile to, revolutionary changes.
edutrue.tripod.com/b-files/decline.html
- American Council of Alumni and Trustees - Committed to academic excellence and freedom of expression in higher education.
www.goacta.org
- Coalition for Higher Education Act Reform - Recommends revision of the U.S. Higher Education Act which denies or delays financial aid to students with drug offenses.
www.raiseyourvoice.com
- Discourse on Shamefulness - An essay that argues for the traditional literary canon at the English Department in the University of Houston.
www.abortionessay.com/essay/files/Shamefulness
- FAST: Foundation for Academic Standards & Tradition - Organization of college, university, and high school students devoted to high academic standards and humanistic study of the liberal arts in the Western tradition.
www.gofast.org
- Foundation Coalition - An NSF-sponsored initiative funding systemic reform in undergraduate engineering education at seven schools.
fc1.tamu.edu
- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education - "FIRE is a nonprofit educational foundation devoted to free speech, individual liberty, religious freedom, the rights of conscience, legal equality, due process, and academic freedom" in American universities.
www.thefire.org/index.php3
- Higher Education Reform site of The Pew Charitable Trusts - Research, information, and case studies from multiple grantees of The Pew Charitable Trusts working on higher education reform issues.
www.abouteducationreform.org
- Impact of Internet on Higher Education - Report examining major university presidents perceptions of the impact of Internet on education & pressures that promote & inhibit.
members.aol.com/rebryn
- Margit Stange Support Committee - Academic gender bias lawsuit news with background on gender disparaties in US universities and equity issues in higher education.
www.stange-support.org
- National Alliance for College Athletics Reform - Dedicated to insuring that big-time college sports do not compromise the educational missions of colleges and universities.
members.aol.com/NAFCAR
- Pope Center for Higher Education Policy - Conservative public policy organization publishing white papers and other reports on how to improve higher education. Global in interest, but having a special emphasis on North Carolina.
www.popecenter.org
- Re-envisioning the Ph.D. Project - Dedicated to fostering national/international discussion and initiatives that address the question: How can we re-envision the Ph.D. to meet the societal needs of the 21st Century?
www.grad.washington.edu/envision
- Rutgers After Lawrence: Reforming a Once-Great University - Faculty essay on the reforms needed at Rutgers University to strengthen academics and reduce the destructive impact of Division I athletics.
www.rci.rutgers.edu/~wcd/oharalet.htm
- Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship - Goals, activities, newsletter, membership info, and articles on current issues from SAFS, which seeks to uphold academic freedom and high standards against political correctness at universities in Canada.
www.niagara.com/~safs
- Student Diversity Program at Cal State Fullerton - The SDP is designed to address the retention of "At Risk" students. Using unconventional methods of intervention, SDP has demonstrated over 90% success at California State University, Fullerton.
www.fullerton.edu/studentdiversity
- Student Loan Hell - Biblical argument for abolishing the ban on student loan bankruptcy discharge, as well as links to other student loan information sites.
geocities.com/studentloanhell
- The Collegiate Way: Residential Colleges and Higher Education Reform - Reforming campus life by dividing large universities into small residential colleges like those at Oxford and Cambridge.
collegiateway.org
- The Futures Project - Analysis of the role market forces play in higher education with the goal of developing and implementing thoughtful, market-oriented policy options.
www.futuresproject.org
- The Irascible Professor - Irreverent commentary on the state of education in America today, by Dr. Mark H. Shapiro and guest writers.
irascibleprofessor.com
- The Learning Community Commons - The National Learning Communities Project provides cutting-edge academic learning community work in undergraduate education across the United States.
learningcommons.evergreen.edu
- The National Academy for Academic Leadership - The academy educates academic decision makers to be leaders institutional change that improves student learning. Administrators and faculty will develop the knowledge and skills to effect systemic institutional change.
www.thenationalacademy.org
- The Pew Charitable Trusts - Reports from research grantees addressing issues in higher education reform.
www.pewtrusts.com/ideas/index.cfm?issue=22
- The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty of America's Campuses - How university administrators, particularly in campus student affairs divisions, have abridged the civil liberties of students and faculty members, and what can be done to redress the problem.
www.shadowuniv.com
- Tuition-free MIT - A radical proposal arguing that schools such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which have many ties to wealthy corporations, should not charge their students tuition.
philip.greenspun.com/school/tuition-free-mit.html
- UEdge - Providing case study analysis and informed opinions about higher education policy and works to assist students and the general public to understand key issues that affect them.
www.uedge.org
- University of Illinois College of Medicine Expose - A brief expose by a former medical student of the practices which occurred at the largest medical school in the Midwest in the 1990s.
ourworld.cs.com/palexa39757/myhomepage/business.html
- University Secrets: An Indictment of Higher Education - University Secrets is the full text of a book describing higher education's failure to educate students and its exploitive transfers of funds. It criticizes grades, SATs, tracking, and housing policies.
universitysecrets.com
- Vermont Campus Compact - A higher education organization promoting greater institutional commitment to community service, service learning, and local partnerships
www.middlebury.edu/~vcc
- Vietnam Veterans for Academic Reform - Calling for reform in higher education against speech codes, political correctness, multiculturalism, gender feminism, misinformation about the Vietnam War, and other instruments of academic oppression.
vvar.homestead.com/main.html
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