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Download full textUS Department of Education, 2018
The Higher Education Act of 1965 makes clear that, although the U.S. Department of Education (Department) has an important role to play in ensuring that all academically-ready students have the opportunity to attend the colleges of their choice, Congress has prohibited the Department from intervening in the curricular decisions of an institution…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Accreditation (Institutions), Standards
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Direct linkOrphan, Cecilia M.; Laderman, Sophia; Gildersleeve, Ryan Evely – Review of Higher Education, 2021
This multiple-site case study of 24 intermediary organizations (IOs) engaged in postsecondary public policy examined how they identify policy issues and move issues, problems, and solutions onto the higher education policy agenda. Specifically, this study used agenda-setting theory to examine how IOs construct higher education policy issues,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Agenda Setting, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
Kimball, Bruce A. – Harvard Educational Review, 2014
This article examines the prominent narrative asserting that liberal arts colleges have continuously declined in number and status over the past 130 years. Bruce A. Kimball identifies problems in this declension narrative and proposes a revision positing that the decline of liberal arts colleges began only after 1970. Further, he maintains that…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Honors Curriculum, Universities, Institutional Mission
Brown, M. Christopher, II – Journal of Negro Education, 2013
Historically Black colleges and universities are a unique institutional cohort in American higher education. These colleges have been celebrated for their achievements and critiqued for their composition at differing points during their collective history. This article addresses contemporary ebbs and flows of their relevance and reputation in the…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Institutional Characteristics, Educational Change, Institutional Mission
Crawford, Jerry, II. – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2012
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are facing challenges to their continued existence on several fronts. One is fiscally, as federal funding for education has been cut and the responsibility for paying for higher education has been levied on students and parents. Another challenge is the amount of endowment dollars available to…
Descriptors: Governance, Departments, College Administration, Success
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1990
This document reports oral and written testimony given for an oversight hearing by witnesses concerning the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965 primarily as it affects Black colleges and universities. Witnesses included college presidents from historically black colleges/universities including Smith University (North Carolina),…
Descriptors: Access to Education, American Indians, Black Colleges, Blacks
