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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.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jan 4, 2023
  • 6 Comments

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.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Charlie Rapple, Haseeb Irfanullah, Judy Luther, Alice Meadows
  • Sep 28, 2020
  • 2 Comments

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?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Apr 29, 2011
  • 0 Comments

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.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Apr 28, 2011
  • 6 Comments

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?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Feb 10, 2011
  • 15 Comments

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.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Dec 14, 2010
  • 4 Comments

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?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • May 11, 2010
  • 2 Comments

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.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Feb 26, 2010
  • 1 Comment

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