Effective Trusteeship
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2007
December, "Ivory Tower Decay" by Michael Barone, New York Sun
November, "Will Higher Ed Reform Itself?" by Kevin Carey, Education Sector
October, "Inside the Higher Ed Lobby: Welcome to Dupont Circle, where good education-reform ideas go to die" by Ben Adler, The Washington Monthly
September, "A Core Curriculum for Tomorrow's Citizens" by Harry R. Lewis, Chronicle of Higher Education
August, "Assessment for 'Us' and Assessment for 'Them'" by Jeremy D. Penn, Inside Higher Ed
July, Gioia to graduates: "Trade easy pleasures for more complex and challenging ones" by Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts
June, "The freedom to teach; not to indoctrinate" by Jay Bergman, The Providence Journal
May, "Tenure Reform: The Time Has Come" by Hank Brown, Inside Higher Ed
April, "What Has Happened to the Professoriate?" by Stanley N. Katz, Chronicle of Higher Education
March, "Endowments Can Become Too Much of a Good Thing" by Mark B. Schneider, Chronicle of Higher Education
February, "Trustees: Avoiding 'less thoughtful' change" by Steve Ferguson, The Herald Times
January, "Alumnus interruptus: How University, Inc. is controlling the message to its graduate—and funding base" by Harvey Silverglate, The Boston Phoenix
2006
December, "What Trustees Can Do to Improve Teacher Education Programs" by Dr. Charles McClain, Trustees for Better Teachers conference in Kansas City, Missouri
November, "College Rankings Reformed: The Case for a New Order in Higher Education" by Kevin Carey, Education Sector
October, "Why Colleges Are So Hard to Change" by Robert M. Diamond, Inside Higher Ed
September, "Currious Curricula" by Walter E. Williams, Creator’s Syndicate
August, "Can Tough Grades Be Fair Grades?" by Samuel G. Freedman, New York Times
July, "Getting Compensation Under Control, How top university administrators came to be overpaid and what trustees can do about it" by Velma Montoya, Inside Higher Ed
June, "The Columbia Core: A Look Back" by Jacques Barzun
May, "The Public Purposes of Public Colleges" by Constantine W. Curris, Chronicle of Higher Education
April, "Moving Beyond Tenure" by Dean Dad, Inside Higher Ed
March, "Study: Most College Students Lack Skills" by Ben Feller, Associated Press
February, "Nine Principles: Serving the public good in a time of changing governance models for colleges and universities" by Joseph C. Burke, CrossTalk
January, "The Modern University Has Become Obsolete" by Froma Harrop, www.realpolitics.com
2005
December, "The Critical Role of Trustees in Enhancing Student Learning" by Derek Bok, Chronicle of Higher Education
November, "Balancing Mission and Accountability" by Robert C. Andringa, www.boardsource.org
October, "The High Cost of College: An Increasingly Hard Sell" by William Strauss and Neil Howe, Chronicle of Higher Education
September, "The Brains Business: Mass higher education is forcing universities to become more diverse, more gloal and much more competitive" The Economist
August, "How the Best Boards Stay Clued In" by Joseph Weber, with Robert O. Crockett, Michael Arndt, Brian Grow, and Nanette Byrnes, BusinessWeek
July, "Where Have you Gone, Joe DiMaggio?" by Thomas Friedman, New York Times
June, "How to Keep Trustees from Being Micromanagers" by Richard Chait, Chronicle of Higher Education
May, "How did half of high school students become comfortable with government censorship of media?" by Thomas Lipscomb, Chicago Sun-Times
April, "No Teacher Left Behind: Teachers are a key to improvement in education" by Peter Gibbon, National Review
March, "Linked at the Core: The Liberal Arts and Intellectual Diversity" by Paula Sutter Fichtner
February, "Common Knowledge: The Purpose of General Education" by Barry Latzer, Chronicle of Higher Education
January, "The Education Economist: Ugly Truths about Runaway College Tuition" by Richard Vedder, The American Enterprise
2004
December, "Strings Attached: Givers and Colleges Clash on Spending" by Greg Winter and Jonathan Cheng, New York Times
November, "Trustees: Allies in Academic Integrity" by Jerry Martin, Academic Questions
October, "Trim the College?—A Utopia!" by Jacques Barzun, Chronicle of Higher Education
September, "Narrowness and Liberality" by John Agresto, Academic Questions
August, "Public Colleges Must Trim the Fat" by James F. Carlin, Boston Globe
July, "Learning the Value of Liberal Arts" by Jay Mathews, washingtonpost.com
June, "The Antidote to Academic Orthodoxy" by Stephen Balch, Chronicle of Higher Education
May, "A University is not a Business (and Other Fantasies)" by Milton Greenberg, EDUCAUSE Review
April, "Is Intellectual Diversity an Endangered Species on America’s College Campuses?" Testimony of Anne D. Neal before Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee
March, "Start Making Sense" by Patrick Healy, Sunday Boston Globe
February, "Longtime Observer Gives Low Grade to Trends in U.S. Higher Education" by Mel Elfin, Key Reporter
January, "University Trusteeship in the Enron Era" by Jose A. Cabranes