Learning in Higher Education

EVENTS

April 18, 2013

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC



2013

April 18

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC


March 19

Stockton College, Galloway, NJ


February 27

Mt. Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada


February 8

Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Champaign, IL


February 7

University of Iowa, University Heights, IA


February 6

Stanford University, Center for Education Policy Analysis, Stanford, CA


January 30

Council for Higher Education Accreditation Annual Conference, Washington, D.C.


January 9

Simpson College, Indianola, IA



2012

November 16

New England Faculty Development Consortium (NEFDC), Worcester, MA


October 25

Manhattan Institute, New York, NY


October 3

Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA


September 27

Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT


June 7

Teagle Foundation National Convening: What Works and What Matters in Student Learning?, New York, NY


April 23

Association of Governing Boards, Washington, DC


April 10

James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA


March 30

Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH


March 30

University of Louisville, Louisville, KY


March 28

Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT


March 22

Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, VA


March 16

Northeastern University, Boston, MA


March 9

Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, MD


February 23

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA


January 26 - January 27

Association of American Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC


January 8

Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA



2011

November 3 - November 4

Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI


October 28

Iona College, New Rochelle, NY


October 27

Texas Higher Education Coordination Board, Austin, TX


October 26

Committee for Economic Development, Washington DC


October 21

University of Illinois, Champaign, IL


October 14

Utah State College, Logan, UT


October 12

Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY


October 11

Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA


October 7

George Washington University, Washington, DC


October 3

Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI


September 23

SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY


September 22

Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA


September 22

York College, New York, NY


August 23

American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV


July 25 - July 27

Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) Annual Conference, National Harbor, Maryland


June 23 - June 25

Southern Education Foundation, Atlanta, GA


June 15

Washington Higher Education Secretariat, American Council on Education, Washington, DC


June 14

Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium, Philadelphia, PA


June 10

Lawlor Summer Seminar, Minneapolis, MN


June 2

Business LEADs Network Institute on Postsecondary Education, Washington, DC


May 22

Association for Institutional Research, Toronto, Canada


May 19

Rutgers University, Newark, NJ


May 18

Social Science Research Council, Brooklyn, NY
Open to the public. RSVP required.


May 17

Misericordia University, Dallas, PA


May 12 - May 13

American Enterprise Institute, Washington D.C.


May 10

Hunter College, New York, NY


May 4

Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY


April 29

University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA


April 28

Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA


April 12

American Education Research Association, New Orleans, LA


April 11

University of Akron, Akron, OH


April 7

Southern Sociological Society, Jacksonville, FL


April 7 - April 10

Education Writers Association Conference, New Orleans, LA


March 31

NYU Center for Teaching Excellence, New York, NY


March 30

The New School, New York, NY


March 22

University of Virginia, Teaching Resource Center, Charlottesville, VA

March 17

News Literacy Conference, Stony Brook University, School of Journalism, Stony Brook, NY

March 17

City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, NY


March 11

University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX

March 10

Rice University, Houston, TX


March 9

New York University, New York, NY


March 4

University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD


February 23

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN


February 17

Longwood University, Farmville, VA

February 16

University of Toronto


February 11

Institute of Education Sciences, Washington, D.C.


February 4

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA


February 3 - February 4

National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI) Meeting


February 3

NACIQI Panel Testimony, Washington, D.C.


February 2

Cornell ILR School Colloquium, New York, NY



2010

December 16

CLA Spotlight


October 7

Michigan State University


October 1

University of Arkansas


August 3

Council of Independent Colleges Meeting, Jersey City, NJ


July 9

Voluntary System of Accountability Workshop, St. Louis, MO


June 8

Voluntary System of Accountability Workshop, Baltimore, MD


May 15

SERU Research Symposium: Learning Outcomes, Student Success, and Assessing Affordability -
An Exploration of What the Data and Research Tells Us, University of California, Berkeley


May 12

“Learning During Unsettled Times: College Student Academic Performance and Recent Experiences in the U.S.,” International Sociology Association Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28), University of Haifa, Israel


April 8

CLA Spotlight


March 4

Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy, New York University


February 25

Richard Arum reports findings at the University of Pittsburgh


February 25

Learning Policy Center, University of Pittsburgh



2009

December

Triangulating Outcomes of a College Education: Using Evidence to Enhance Student Learning, Wabash College, Indiana


December 16

CLA Spotlight


November 1

Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN


October 1

Memorial University, St. John’s, Canada


August 8

“Learning to Reason and Communicate in College: Findings from the CLA Longitudinal Study,” American Sociology Association, San Francisco, CA


April

“Learning at a Disadvantage: Cognitive Growth of College Students from Disadvantaged Backgrounds.” American Educational Research Association, San Diego



2008

November 1

“Learning to Reason and Communicate in College: Report of Initial Findings from the CLA Longitudinal Project.” Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), Phoenix, AZ


June 1

CLA Spotlight


April 1

Department of Applied Psychology, New York University


February

Risk and Prevention Speaker Series, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia



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April 19, 2012

New York Times: Testing the Teachers



2013

April 18

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC


March 19

Stockton College, Galloway, NJ


February 27

Mt. Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada


February 8

Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Champaign, IL


February 7

University of Iowa, University Heights, IA


February 6

Stanford University, Center for Education Policy Analysis, Stanford, CA


January 30

Council for Higher Education Accreditation Annual Conference, Washington, D.C.


January 9

Simpson College, Indianola, IA



2012

March 26

Chicago Tribune: Has College Become Too Easy?


March 23

The Week UK: The Great Myth of America’s “Knowledge Economy”


March 14

Washington Post: Trying to Assess Learning Gives Colleges Their Own Test Anxiety


February 12

The Chronicle: “Academically Adrift”: The News Gets Worse and Worse


February 10


February 2

Times Higher Education: Study Hard for Smooth Transition to Job Market


January 31

Los Angeles Times: Are College Students Learning?


January 26

CBS News: Really Bad News for College Slackers


January 25

USA Today: Liberal Arts Education Lends an Edge in Down Economy


January 25

Inside Higher Ed: Alumni Adrift


January 24


January 8

The Washington Post: Who Needs Analytical Skill? We Have Football



2011

November


September 30

The Washington Post: Our Unprepared Graduates


September 30


September 14

Boston Magazine: Is College Over?


August 14

Doonesbury on Academically Adrift


June 27

Inside Higher Ed: The Wrong Message


June 12

The Chronicle of Higher Education: In Follow-Up, ‘Academically Adrift’ Students Show Worrisome Levels of Debt and Joblessness, Author Says


June 6

The New Yorker: Live and Learn


June 2

Los Angeles Times: College, too easy for its own good


June 2

The Chronicle: Who’s Going to Write the Next “Academically Adrift”?


May 30

Charlottesville Daily Progress: UVa author says college students not learning enough


May 25


May 16


April 17


April 14


April 7

PBS Ideas in Action


April 1

Psychology Today: Catching the Drift of Academically Adrift


March 10

New York Times: College Today: More Fun, Less Rigor?


March 8

Miller McCune: How Did Students Become Academically Adrift?


March 4

New York Times: College the Easy Way


March 2

CS Monitor: Why the weak students end up as teachers: Education programs lack intellect.


February 22

WBUR Radio Boston: Does a College Education Prepare for you Life After School?


February 20

Campaign for the American Reader: Pg. 99: Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa’s Academically Adrift


February 13

The Chronicle: A Little Shame Goes a Long Way


February 13

The Chronicle: Scholars Question New Book’s Gloom on Education


February 11

Wall Street Journal: Now College is the Break


February 9

NPR Morning Edition: A Lack of Rigor Leaves Students’ “Adrift” in College


February 6

Salon: “Academically Adrift”: Are american kids falling behind?


February 6

New Orleans Times Picayune: College is no guarantee of an education


February 3

Boston Globe: On the ground, tales of ill-prepared undergrads


February 1

Hartford Courant: Book says college kids don’t learn


February 1

Philadelphia Inquirer: Study finds a fair number of slackers on campus


February 1

Chicago Tribune: Low expectations for higher education


February 1

NPR On Point: Stress on College Students


January 31

New York Times: Race to the Top of What? Obama on Education


January 27

NYT Room for Debate: Does College Make You Smarter?


January 27

The Washington Post: Lumina’s Degree Profile: A co-author’s view


January 27

Library Journal: What do we do now?


January 27

NPR Here and Now: Is College Worth It? Study Finds Some Students Learn Nothing in First Two Years


January 26

Minnesota Public Radio: Is higher education losing its meaning?


January 22

Wall Street Journal: College Test Leaves Questions Unanswered


January 21

Wall Street Journal: Putting College Evaluations to the Test


January 21

Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal: Academically Adrift


January 20

Christian Science Monitor: Smarten up college students before adding more graduates


January 20

Fox Business: Is College Worth the Cost?


January 19

Inside Higher Education: So, Students Don’t Learn – Now What?


January 18

CNN American Morning: Students show “no significant gains” after first two years of college


January 18

Inside Higher Education: Academically Adrift


January 18

The Chronicle: Are Undergraduates Actually Learning Anything?


January 18

The Hechinger Report: College Students Aren’t Thinking Critically



2010

September 19

The Chronicle: A Measure of Education is Put to the Test



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