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Catching Up to Canada

Posted on November 6, 2009 by | Comments Off on Catching Up to Canada

Inside Higher Ed: Catching Up to Canada

VANCOUVER, B.C. — Caveats about the data aside – and there are plenty, admittedly – the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s heavily used rankings on countries’ college outcomes place Canada at the top of the list for the proportion of citizens with a postsecondary credential.

So when President Obama, in a speech to Congress in February, set a goal of having the United States get back to the top of that ranking by 2020, “that means that you’re trying to bump us off,” Noel Baldwin, a policy and research officer at the Canada Millennium Scholarship Fund, told a group of mostly American researchers during the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education.

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Hiding Adjuncts From ‘U.S. News’

Posted on September 7, 2009 by | Comments Off on Hiding Adjuncts From ‘U.S. News’

Inside Higher Ed: Hiding Adjuncts From ‘U.S. News’

Everyone knows that adjuncts and graduate assistants do a lot of the teaching these days, right? Well, maybe not everyone.

The American Federation of Teachers on Wednesday posted a blog item asking how it is, given those well documented trends, that magazine rankings give parents the sense that most of the teaching at large universities is done by full-time faculty members. “The majority of top colleges report well over 80 percent of their faculty are full-time and a large number report that well over 90 percent of their faculty are full-time. University of Nebraska-Lincoln even reports that 100 percent of its faculty are full-time,” the blog says of institutions in the U.S. News & World Report rankings, a small part of which are based on the percentage of faculty who are full time. “Amazing!”

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