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The Role of Social Capital in Human Investment: A Social Network Approach to College Success in the First Year
(2008-12-10)College and university leaders ask for tax and philanthropic support, arguing that their institutions promote economic progress through investment in human capital. Yet, despite Americans' pursuit of higher education in ... -
More Inclusion than Diversion: Expansion, Differentiation, and Market Structure in Higher Education
(2009-01-30)This presentation is part of the Ideas and Universities International Video Seminar Series and is made available on the UW-Madison campus thanks to funding and support from the UW-Madison Division of International Studies, ... -
Organization and Governance of Universities
(2009-02-09)Professor Bleiklie will present an analysis of the ways in which ideas and ideals of university organization and governance have changed over the past few decades, moving away from a notion of the university as a republic ... -
Strengthening Academic Programs through Inter-campus Collaboration
(2009-02-18)Collaborations between academic programs are seen as a way to stretch academic resources, especially the highly valuable resource of faculty expertise. One recent joint initiative by two University of Wisconsin System ... -
Cross-national Trends in Teacher Work Roles and Working Conditions
(2009-03-02)With the growing attention to curricular standardization, especially in math and science, and equitable conditions that promote learning for all students, most research has continued to focus on instructional practice ... -
The Commonwealth of Universities
(2009-03-13)Professor Martial Staub will present a discussion about how and why medieval intellectuals created universities and what higher education and democratic societies today can learn from those efforts. Beginning with ... -
The Prevalence and Impact of Differential Tuition in Public Research Institutions
(2009-03-25)As Wisconsin?s economy continues to face difficult challenges and the legislature is forced to consider how to fund the state?s public institutions in the coming years, tuition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will ... -
Enter the Dragon? China's Higher Education Returns to the World Community: The Case of Peking University
(2009-04-20)In the coming decade, Peking University aims to achieve world-class status as an international research institution. However, the institution has encountered a fundamental issue: successful adaptation of the European-American ... -
The Bottom 70 Percent: What America's Elite Institutions of Higher Learning Owe to Everyone Else
(2009-04-23)On February 24th, 2009 President Obama issued a bold call for America to regain its former position as having the most college-educated workforce in the world. To reach that goal, we will have to go where student enrollment ... -
Understanding the Culture of Research Collaboration: An Exploration of Transnational Partnerships
(2009-05-09)Global partnerships with multi-national teams are increasingly referenced as a means to approach the world?s most pressing problems. This interactive session details an empirically derived conceptual framework that describes ... -
Globalizing the 'Bologna Process': Looking Closely at Europe's 'Looking Out' Policy for Higher Education
(2009-05-15)Professor Robertson will be looking closely at the globalization of Europe's Bologna Process, which is altering the terms and terrain of higher education in and outside of Europe. She argues that this process-- the creation ... -
Quality Assurance in Higher Education as a Political Process
(2009-05-29)Is quality assurance in higher education a technical process or a political process? Michael Skolnik suggests three reasons why quality assurance should, in many cases, be viewed as a largely political process: 1) ... -
Supporting Student Veteran Success at Madison's Postsecondary Institutions
(2009-09-24)The recent adoption of the Post-9/11 GI Bill has made postsecondary education accessible to many veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. As a result, the program will bring thousands of veteran students to campuses ... -
Workforce Effects on Wisconsin's Economy
(2009-11-17)The fall 2009 forum, hosted by the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE) on the University of Wisconsin?Madison campus, will bring together policymakers, practitioners, students, scholars, ... -
Promising Examples from Outside Wisconsin
(2009-11-17)The fall 2009 forum, hosted by the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE) on the University of Wisconsin?Madison campus, will bring together policymakers, practitioners, students, scholars, ... -
Challenges Facing Postsecondary Enrollment, Financial Aid, and Workforce Development in Wisconsin
(2009-11-17)The fall 2009 forum, hosted by the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE) on the University of Wisconsin?Madison campus, will bring together policymakers, practitioners, students, scholars, ... -
The Current Landscape of Financial Aid in Wisconsin
(2009-11-17)The fall 2009 forum, hosted by the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE) on the University of Wisconsin?Madison campus, will bring together policymakers, practitioners, students, scholars, ... -
State Need Grant: The major grant program for the state of Washington
(2009-11-17)The Wisconsin Idea Forum is a biannual event sponsored by the University of Wisconsin System and hosted by system campuses. This is the second in the program series, which brings University of Wisconsin resources to bear ... -
Navigating the College Crunch: Need- Based Aid and the Future of Wisconsin Education and Employment
(2010)The Wisconsin Idea Forum is a biannual event sponsored by the University of Wisconsin System and hosted by system campuses. This is the second in the program series, which brings University of Wisconsin resources to bear ... -
The (Un)Productivity of American Colleges: From "Cost Disease" to Cost-Effectiveness
(2010-03-19)We show that the productivity of American colleges and universities in terms of degree production is plummeting. This is partly due to rising costs that economists typically attribute to Baumol's well known "cost disease," ...