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Direct linkAdelman, Clifford – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2017
In the traditional higher education sphere, AAC&U's "Essential Learning Outcomes" (ELO 2012) and the Lumina Foundation sponsored "Degree Qualifications Profile" (DQP 2014) both set forth, in different ways, concrete expectations for student learning that include what symbolic translation and its infusions is about. Both…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Translation, Higher Education, Academic Standards
Cipriano, Robert E.; Buller, Jeffrey L. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2012
Most position descriptions for college and university faculty include benchmarks that indicate assumptions about collegiality. Criticism about this practice has been voiced for years. But case law in the United States has upheld the use of collegiality as a factor in decisions regarding faculty employment, tenure, and promotion. Indeed, several…
Descriptors: Collegiality, College Faculty, Department Heads, Court Litigation
Haycock, Kati – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2010
Many people in higher education were caught by surprise when the nation's governors and chief state school officers announced their intention to adopt common standards for American high schools that aim at college readiness. In this article, the author explores what this common standards is all about and how it can be helpful in college…
Descriptors: State Schools, High Schools, College Preparation, Academic Standards
Nelson, Christopher – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2007
Accountability is a concept that is well suited to the marketplace and a market-driven society, and it is appropriate when one wants to acquire a product made or sold by someone else. This commodification model is less effective when people pay for a service, rather than a product. The model becomes even more problematic when it is applied to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Accountability, Hermeneutics, Phenomenology
Shavelson, Richard J. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2007
Over the past 35 years, the public, as well as state and federal policy makers, have increasingly pressured higher education to create a culture of evidence and, specifically, to account for student learning. While virtually all states report on collegiate learning using proxies (e.g., graduation rates), colleges and universities are now being…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Standardized Tests, Accountability, Educational Indicators
Floud, Roderick – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2006
This article describes and discusses the Bologna Process, an agreement among the education ministries and the universities and colleges of 45 European countries to create the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) by 2010. At the core of the agreement is the decision that all higher education institutions in Europe will adopt the three-tiered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Academic Degrees, Academic Achievement
