American Universities Under Scrutiny: An Insider's View
SCS 785e (Rice University School of Continuing Studies Course, Winter, 1998)
James R. Pomerantz

This is the home page for the course, "American Universities Under Scrutiny."  Please check the bottom of the page for any recent updates.  

Syllabus

Resources

Historical Timeline

U.S. Institutions of Higher Education

Technology and Higher Education

Financial Aid

 

Update, March 12, 1998

New links on Financial Aid are available below.

A set of links on Technology and Higher Education is now available here.

A copy of the reading for our Feb. 25 class, "How We Will Learn" by Peter J. Denning, can be found at the CNE Web Site: How We Will Learn.  In accessing this article, you may be asked to download and install Adobe's Acrobat Reader, a safe and widely used browser plug-in that should prove useful in reading other documents as well.

A copy of the reading for our Feb. 18 class, "Straight Talk About College Costs and Prices," (The Report of The National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education) can be found at the Web Site of the American Council on Education (ACE; just added to Resources, below), or by clicking here: Straight Talk About College Costs and Prices.


Please send me any comments you have on this course.
Page last updated March 12, 1998

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