Posts Tagged: Frontline

Return to Data Connection: Stats on NE Education, Economy, Life

Posted January 9th, 2011 by John O. Harney & filed under News, Newslink, Newslink Topic.

For nearly 20 years, the print editions of The New England Journal of Higher Education (and its predecessor Connection) published a quarterly collection of facts and figures called "Data Connection."It was a sort of ripoff of the underrated Harper's Index. The key was to cleverly juxtapose pieces of interesting data, with no expressed overarching context. The glue, in our case, was that the items ...

The Profit Prophets in Higher Education

Posted September 30th, 2010 by NEBHE Admin & filed under Journal Type, The Journal, Topic.

The nation seems to have suddenly awoken to the reality that for-profit academic institutions are a force to be reckoned with. For so long, they have been ignored as inconsequential, second-rate competition, and vilified for their greed and lack of quality. Two events seemed to have changed their image into something far more formidable: the realization that government-sponsored financial aid goes...