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Outsourcing Student Success | The History of Institutional Research and the Future of Higher Education

Now available on Amazon.com, Outsourcing Student Success, the first independent scholarship on the one hundred year history of institutional research in higher education.

Colleges and universities have engaged in a bewildering succession of reform efforts to improve institutional performance and student success in higher education since the 1960s, with little success. After more than fifty years of seeking solutions internally, institutions are turning more and more to outside, for-profit fir...

A Modest Proposal

For preventing higher education institutions in America, from being burdened by tuition-dependency and “small” endowments, and for making higher education beneficial to its students.

In November, 2015, Moody’s Investors Service released its latest melancholy forecast for tuition-dependent, private non-profit colleges and universities: “It’s going to be another year of lackluster tuition revenue growth for universities, as the pipeline of students heading to college slows and families remain s...