In this era of post-traditional higher education faculty, libraries and students can be virtually anywhere in the world.
And while deadwood faculty are by no means the norm in higher education (the majority of faculty surely pulls its own weight), the mere inability to remove unproductive faculty is economically inefficient for colleges and unjust to the students paying tuition and forced to sit through classes with professors who view them as a nuisance.
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To attain similar effects, a school has to either lower tuition by 3.8 percent or increase the quality of its education by recruiting higher-quality faculty, who are paid 5 percent more than their average peers in the academic labor market.
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For governments and universities in countries with weak higher education systems and severe shortages of quality faculty, the coming decade of industry restructuring in the U.S. and a small number of other advanced countries represents an unprecedented opportunity.
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Forbes and James may be well advised to check with faculty to learn about the difficulties facing higher education.
He reasons that incentives in higher education need realigned to encourage students to study more, faculty to take a stronger interest in student instruction and institutions themselves to provide the best possible educational value.
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One such policy suggests that colleges reform their academic employment policies by replacing tenure with one of a number of alternatives that would preserve the holy grail of higher education, academic freedom, which is necessary to prevent faculty from being arbitrarily dismissed for saying or writing things that administrators or influential outsiders consider wrong or offensive.
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Some California faculty have also protested plans in the state higher education system to use MOOCs to supplement teaching on campus.
The history of American higher education demonstrates that the quality of teaching and research is greatest when faculty are secure in their freedom to inquire, speak, teach and publish.
And those widening gaps, those widening salary differentials, continue to widen because again once you internalise the notion of the higher education project being about private return for private investment then obviously individual members of the faculty begin thinking to themselves and understanding their mission in private rather than public ways.
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Congratulations to USAID and to the university leaders, faculty, students, and staff that will be key to the success of the Higher Education Solutions Network.
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While the book has provided some useful insight into the early developments of American higher education, I was taken aback when I came across a passage discussing the meager pay of college faculty during the 1790-1869 period and decided that some simple economic lessons are in order for our historians.
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