Sign up for Higher Education Newsletters

For your Seminar 4 class, you will need to keep abreast of current events in higher education. Professor Hainline requests that you sign up to receive the following newsletters in your email inbox.

1. Inside Higher Ed: Sign up for the “Daily News Update” here.

2. The Chronicle of Higher Education: Sign up for the “Daily Academe” newsletter here.

3. The New York Times: If you do not have a login for The New York Times, create one here; you only need to provide your email and create a password. Once you register and are logged in to the site—you should see your email login at the top right-hand corner of the site—you will then create two news alerts here.

NYT Keyword Alert

Click the “Create News Alert” link, then click the “Keyword Alert” button under News Alert. In the first box under “Step 1: Define Your Alert,” type in higher education as seen in the accompanying screenshot. You can select your preferences in steps 2 and 3. After previewing, save your alert and repeat the process and create a keyword alert for “college.”

Course Readings (through 3/13)

Readings for 3/13, with links to PDF downloads
Note from Professor Hainline: Prof. Steven Brier will be visiting our class on March 13 to talk about the history of CUNY. The first reading he has suggested you do (chapters from Traub’s A City on the Hill. The others (Landa, Gunderson, Biondi) are my suggestions, but read the Traub first please. Everyone should develop questions for Dr. Brier, so there is no separate team assignment for next week. Email if you have questions.

  • Traub, City on a Hill (pdf)
  • Biondi, “Brooklyn College Belongs to Us” (pdf)
  • Gunderson, “The Struggle for CUNY: A History of the CUNY Student Movement 1969-1999” (pdf)
  • Landa, “The Birth of a Modern University” (pdf)

Readings for 3/6, with links to PDF downloads

  • Lagemann, Chapter 1 (pdf)
  • Marcus, Chapter 2 (pdf)
  • Thelin, Intro, Chapter 8 (pdf)
  • Christensen, Chapters 5, 7, 9, 11 (pdf)

Readings for 2/27, with links to PDF downloads

    Carnegie classification of institutions of higher education.

  • Carnegie data (pdf)
  • IHE Carnegie (pdf)
  • Rethink Carnegie (pdf)
    College and university mission statements, with examples from Macaulay, BC and CUNY.

  • Mission and Vision Statements (pdf)
  • Mission Analysis (pdf)
  • Macaulay Mission (pdf)
  • Brooklyn College Strategic Plan (pdf)
  • CUNY Master Plan (pdf)

Notes: These readings are to be completed before the first class session on Wed., 1/30. You need to be logged into The Chronicle through Brooklyn College (access the portal here) to access the third reading.

a. Committee for Economic Development (2005) Cracks in the Education Pipeline: A Business Leader’s Guide to Higher Education Reform, report by Committee on Higher Education Reform of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, downloaded 1/18/13 from http://www.highereducation.org/reports/ced/ced.pdf

b. Immerwahr, J. and Johnson, J. (2010) Squeeze Play 2010: Continued Public Anxiety on Cost, Harsher Judgments on How Colleges are Run, report prepared by Public Agenda for The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, downloaded 1/18/13 from: http://www.highereducation.org/reports/squeeze_play_10/index.shtml

c. Levine, A. E. (2000) The future of colleges: 9 inevitable changes. The Chronicle of Higher Education, downloaded 9/7/2003 from: http://chronicle.com/article/The-Future-of-Colleges-9/10560/