An Inventory of Innovative Financing Plans to Help Pay for Higher Education

The author surveys the plethora of creative ideas that have sprung up over the last few years to help families cope with rising education costs. He examines savings plans, alternative loan programs, guaranteed access plans, and public service proposals. You will find this article, along with others in this Journal, in New Ways of Paying for College, a book to be published in Fall, 1989, by ACE/MacMillan

Default Trends in Major Postsecondary Education Sectors

This study reviews information on GSL defaults in five states. Sectoral differences in the rates and levels of default are examined using a variety of analytical methods

Who Receives Federal Aid?

This study examines basic information on who receives aid from the major federal assistance programs authorized under Title IV of the Higher Education Act. It also reviews how and to what extent the distribution of federal aid has changed over time

Conference Keynote: "Cutting the Trust Deficit and Investing in College Success"

Conference Keynote: "Cutting the Trust Deficit and Investing in College Success

Educational Technologies and the Teaching of Ethics in Science and Engineering

To support the teaching of ethics in science and engineering, educational technologies offer a variety of functions: communication between students and instructors, production of documents, distribution of documents, archiving of class sessions, and access to remote resources. Instructors may choose to use these functions of the technologies at different levels of intensity, to support a variety of pedagogies, consistent with accepted good practices. Good pedagogical practices are illustrated in this paper with four examples of uses of educational technologies in the teaching of ethics in science and engineering. Educational technologies impose costs for the purchase of hardware, licensing of software, hiring of support personnel, and training of instructors. Whether the benefits justify these costs is an unsettled question. While many researchers are studying the possible benefits of educational technologies, all instructors should assess the effectiveness of their practices.National Science Foundation Grants SES-0138309, SES-0225156published or submitted for publicationis peer reviewe

Foundation guideposts, productivity and the potential for degree qualifications profiles

Foundation guideposts, productivity and the potential for degree qualifications profiles is a podcast interview with Jamie Merisotis, President and CEO of the Lumina Foundation for Education. Merisotis higlights Lumina’s Goal 2025 initiative as it looks at college preparation, improving success in higher education, and improving productivity. For Merisotis productivity means increasing efficiency and effectiveness. Moreover, Merisotis refers to the four steps to finishing first framework, which involves performance based funding, incentives for students, new models of academic delivery, and business/administrative efficiencies. Additionally, Merisotis discusses the Degree Qualifications Profile (DQP), which serves as a framework of what students should know after completing a higher education degree. The DQP establishes outcomes for several levels of higher education and is cumulative. Currently, Lumina is testing the DQP in 100 institutions across 30 states. Interview facilitation, commentary and discussion presented by Kathryn Dodge, Alison Griffin, and Elise Scanlon of Radio Higher E