Topic: Public policy

"Higher Learning, Greater Good" - book cover

Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, International issues, Public policy, Tuition and student fees, Universities and the academic mission

The greater good of higher education

Kjell Rubenson

A review of Walter W. McMahon, Higher Learning, Greater Good: The Private and Social Benefits of Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009).

"Policy and Performance in American Higher Education" - book cover

International issues, Performance assessment, Public policy, Tuition and student fees, Universities and the academic mission

A policy maker’s handbook

Mary Catharine Lennon

Richardson, R. and Martinez, M., Policy and Performance in American Higher Education: An Examination of Cases Across State Systems (Baltimore, Maryland: The John Hopkins University Press, 2009).

"Mission and Money - Understanding the University" - book cover

Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, International issues, Public policy, Students, Universities and the academic mission

Definitely not for loss

David Trick

Mission and Money: Understanding the University, by Burton A. Weisbrod, Jeffrey P. Ballou, and Evelyn D. Asch. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008)

Public policy, Research and innovation

Strange Bedfellows

Charles Ungerleider

The call for evidence-informed decisions makes strange bedfellows of researchers and politicians. Researchers and political decision-makers live in different worlds, respond to […]

Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, International issues, Politics, Public policy, Universities and the academic mission

Making decisions that endure for decades

David Trick

Paulo Santiago, Karine Tremblay, Ester Basri and Elena Arnal. Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society. Volume 1: Special Features: Governance, Funding, Quality; and Volume 2: Special Features: Equity, Innovation, Labour Market, Internationalisation. Paris: OECD, 2008. 728 pages.

Environmental sustainability, Public policy

The Environmental Crisis: The Devil is in the Generalities

Ross McKitrick

I’ve started encouraging my students not to use the word “environment.” Taken literally, it includes everything between your skin and outer space, […]

Environmental sustainability, Public policy