Barrett Seaman, a longstanding journalist for Time Magazine with a fantastic name for the press, became a trustee of Hamilton College, his alma mater, in 1989. Hamilton College is a strong liberal arts institution with a storied history in upstate New York. When Time Warner merged, Seaman took an early retirement and started investigating college…
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Reviews of books, articles, and the like
Credit Hours – The Tie That Binds
The ubiquitous credit hour figures largely in higher education. From our first orientations sessions when sincere advisors explain the reasons that we needed nine credits of this or fifteen credits of that, to counting credits when planning for graduation, to looking at jobs and institutional practice – academic credit is the currency in the realm…
American Higher Education Transformed, Smith & Bender, eds.
American Higher Education Transformed, 1940-2005: Documenting the National Discourse, Wilson Smith and Thomas Bender, eds., Johns Hopkins University, 2008 Smith and Bender’s book is a small encyclopedia of primary source documents about higher education. A short introductory section provides an overview of key topics. The editors chose an interesting structure of broad categories: The Terrain…