The State/Higher Education Interface in the United States

1992 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 32-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank A Schmidtlein ◽  
Robert O Berdahl
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
State Higher Education

Bringing finance inside the state: How income-contingent loans blur the boundaries between debt and tax

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gareth Bryant ◽  
Ben Spies-Butcher
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Education Finance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Higher Education Finance ◽  
The State ◽  
The World ◽  
Hybrid Construction

Income-contingent loans are increasingly used by governments around the world to finance the costs of higher education. We use the case of income-contingent loans to explore how states are bringing the architecture of financial markets inside the state, disrupting conventional understandings of marketisation that are linked to concepts of commodification. We argue that income-contingent loans are hybrid policy instruments that combine elements of a state-instituted tax and a market-negotiated debt. We understand this hybrid construction in terms of the actors and mechanisms characteristic of what Polanyi identified in patterns of ‘redistribution’ and ‘exchange’. We then follow the contested mutations of income-contingent loans in Australia, England and the United States along three axes of hybridity that produce a variegated landscape of higher education finance: determining debt, charging interest and enforcing repayment. Our analysis reveals how, as processes of marketisation internalise financial ways of calculating and organising, states are blurring the boundaries between debts and taxes, redirecting political contestation over commodification.

scholarly journals Utah Tuning Project

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 235
Author(s):  
Randall S. Davies ◽  
David Williams
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Degree Programs ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Individual Institution

<p>Tuning is a faculty-driven initiative designed to improve the quality of higher education by establishing transparent and fully assessable learning outcomes and proficiencies for degrees, discipline by discipline. Unlike many other initiatives in the United States which function within an individual institution, the Utah Tuning Project involved all institutes of higher education within the state of Utah. The purpose of this paper is to document the findings from an evaluation of a multiyear project targeting four undergraduate degree programs involved in a tuning initiative. A summary of recommendations and best practices is provided, along with the challenges and benefits to individuals and programs engaged in this process.</p>

scholarly journals PECULIARITIES OF NON-STATE HIGHER SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT IN THE USA AND GREAT BRITAIN

2021 ◽  
pp. 42-49
Author(s):  
Larysa Korzh-Usenko ◽  
Olena Sydorenko ◽  
Marina Chykalova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
The United States ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
State Higher Education

In the era of information systems and digital technologies, the urgency of developing non-state higher education is primarily related to economic progress and the challenges of a risky society. The investigation is devoted to revealing the peculiarities of the development of non-state higher education in the United States and Great Britain.On the basis of historiographical analysis, the degree of elaboration of the selected problem is determined. Using a retrospective analysis of the development of the world educational space, the historical origins of the emergence and formation of non-state higher education institutions in these English-speaking countries, related to the implementation of church, private and public initiatives. With the help of synchronous analysis of the course of innovation processes in higher education, the peculiarities of the development of the non-state higher school in the USA and Great Britain at the present stage are outlined. The method of synthesis summarizes the main advantages and disadvantages of non-state higher institutions in these English-speaking countries, as well as identifies prospects for further research.The importance of church, private and public initiative in the origin and formation of non-state schools in the United States and Great Britain is revealed, the dominance of the non-state higher education sector over the public in terms of quantity and quality of educational services in these countries.There is a growing tendency to popularize and democratize higher education in the context of the implementation of “ideas of free higher education”, primarily due to the spread of the movement for “Enlargement of the University” in the second half of the nineteenth century from Britain and the United States. The role of open universities in providing quality educational services in developed English-speaking countries at the present stage is presented. Keywords: development; non-state higher school; free university; free higher school; internationalization; globalization; massification; democratization; quality of educational services.

Distance Education and the Role of the State: A Sweden/USA Perspective

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrik Hansson ◽  
Paul Mihailidis ◽  
Carl Holmberg
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Federal Policy ◽  
National Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
State And Local

This study aims to comparatively explore the role of the state (federal policy) in distance-education initiatives in the higher education communities of Sweden and the United States. In a globalized context, education institutes now have the capabilities to provide education and educational resources more efficiently and to a wide-ranging and diverse audience. Within the education sector and distance education, the role of the state and federal policy becomes increasingly important, in terms of how distance-education platforms are developed and implemented in institutions of higher education. The first section of this article provides an overview of the United States and Sweden's current higher education and distance-education landscapes, focusing on the role of the state and federal policy with respect to the funding and overall aims of distance education. The development of distance education in Sweden is highly related to political goals and policies, the top down/domestic/‘inside’ approach. The governing body dictates the funding and policy for distance education, and implementation is left to the university body. In the United States, the landscape differs in that no one federal institution provides direct funding or unified guidelines for developing distance education, but universities are left to their own devices and capabilities for implementation. In Sweden, high ambitions and goals are set at the national level, but the educational organizations are changing only slowly. The pressures on the education organizations are high because of steadily decreasing funding and fewer and fewer staff in relation to students. In the United States, education functions primarily as a state and local responsibility. In conclusion, the article aims to exploit the differences between the two countries' role of the state (federal policy) in distance-education policy, and present a middle ground which would be most balanced for distance education, entailing some federal supervision with the allowance for a certain level of autonomy in regards to development, implementation, funding and longevity.

scholarly journals THE SYSTEM OF QUALITY ASSURANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE FIELD OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE USA

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-61
Author(s):  
Serhii Medynskyi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Quality Assurance System ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Assurance System

Introduction. Education always performs an important function of society and the state, aimed at the formation and development of socially significant qualities of each person as a member of society and citizen, and the state. Quality higher education directs the life of society, turning it into a successful society in the future; forms a new way of thinking, a new vision of the meaning of life increases the status of the country at the international level and stimulates the development of the economy of the whole country. An important component of the strategy for the development of higher education in Ukraine is determined by an effective system of internal and external quality assurance. Aim is to determine and theoretically generalize the features of the conceptual principles, content and organization of the quality assurance system of professional training of specialists in physical education and sports in the United States. Results. The study identifies and theoretically generalizes the characteristic conceptual foundations of the content and organization of the quality assurance system of professional training of specialists in physical education and sports in the United States. Twelve academic specializations for the training of specialists in physical education and sports at US universities have been singled out in terms of content and characterized, which are combined into four main areas. Six basic components of quality assurance in higher education in the field of physical education and sports in the United States have been identified and characterized: the state-defined educational sector "Fitness, Recreation and Leisure"; broad autonomy of universities and public control over the regulation of the quality of training of specialists in physical education and sports; unified system of evaluation of learning outcomes in high school and universities; extended admission control; current selection in universities; system of control of professional competencies of university graduates. Conclusions. The creative use of the ideas of American practice will contribute to the modernization and innovative structuring of the Ukrainian quality system of higher education in general and the training of specialists in physical education and sports in particular.

scholarly journals Anti-intellectualism in American Media: Magazines and Higher Education

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel E. Cyr
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Formal Structure ◽  
American Media

This essay reviews Dane S. Claussen's book, Anti-Intellectualism in American Media: Magazines & Higher Education (2004). In response to widespread concern about the state of intellectualism in the United States since George W. Bush's election as President of the United States, Claussen seeks to answer whether or not magazine coverage of higher education has contributed or reflected anti-intellectualism. Clausson’s research is noteworthy despite two significant weaknesses: the book’s disjunctive formal structure and questionable methodology.

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