Return of the Big Deal: Developments in Texas and India
New arrangements planned in Texas and India move us away from a universal transition to OA, and back towards the Big Deal.
Chefs ‘Set the Stage’ for SSP New Directions Seminar
Scholarly Kitchen Chefs open SSP’s 2020 New Directions seminar discussing how we can support academic peer-reviewed research and the entire academic publishing ecosystem during this unprecedented year of disruptions, disease, and disappointments.
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Higher Education
With a bad job market for PhDs and heavy student debt, should we reexamine our expectations of higher education?
Concerns Over the Higher Education Bubble Continue to Grow and Evolve
The “education as financial bubble” meme is spreading, and new facts and comparisons are emerging.
Gladwell Tackles College Rankings: The Perils of Comprehensive Heterogeneous Systems
Why do smart people continue to seek simple rank-order listings of inherently complex phenomena?
Britain Has Sneezed: Will the U.S. Catch a Cold?
Britain’s response to economic hard times might infect the US higher education system, and lead to major cuts in the humanities and social sciences.
The First Four Years of College: Why Are Students Spending Less Time Studying?
A new economic analysis of the time spent realizing a four-year degree shows decreases across the board since 1961. What does it mean? Why is it happening?
The Video College Application: Tufts Embraces the YouTube Generation
A large university embraces video applications, and more than 1,000 students submit, mostly via YouTube. Here are some clever videos spotlighting some of today’s college applicants.