Friday, February 03, 2012

Got data? for interview today Feb 3 “Changing Course: Reinventing Colleges, Avoiding Closure” tlt.gs/ABrownChngCrs

BOOK DISCUSSION tlt.gs/ABrownChngCrs
Alice Brown, Past Pres. Appalachian College Assoc, will be interviewed by  Steve Gilbert.

Need additional background data for recent years (e.g., 2005-2010) …

Colleges opening/closing - undergrad "seats" 
  • Are more colleges closing or opening?
  • Total # of colleges and universities in the United States went from XXXX to YYYY 
  • Total # of colleges and universities in the US that closed, merged, or changed name (“reinvented itself”)?
  • Total # of colleges, univs in the US that were launched?
  •  Are there more private colleges for-profit and online? And fewer non-profit on-campus?
  • Are there more/fewer applications for undergraduate enrollment? More/fewer applications per available opening?
Student/Faculty Ratio
  • What is happening to the student faculty ratio? Overall? By institutional category? Online vs. on-campus?
  • What is happening to the student full-time tenure track faculty ratio? student full-time non-tenure track faculty ratio? student part-time faculty ratio? Overall? By institutional category? Online vs. on-campus?
Financial Patterns How are financial patterns changing vis a vis
  • Payment per course per student collected from the student or from someone on behalf of the student
  • Operating cost per course
  • Faculty salary per course
 
IIMAGE selected by Steve Gilbert 20120131
Photo of painting (1803) "Avalanche in the Alps" by Philipp Jakob Loutherbourg the Younger (1740–1812)
The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Philipp_Jakob_Loutherbourg_d._J._003.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Philipp_Jakob_Loutherbourg_d._J._003.jpg
Philipp Jakob Loutherbourg the Younger [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
"The work of art depicted in this image and the reproduction thereof are in the public domain worldwide. The reproduction is part of a collection of reproductions compiled by The Yorck Project. The compilation copyright is held by Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH and licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License."

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