Baum
The federal government's involvement in higher education is largely rooted in these two goals.
What is equity and efficiency?
Conflating intellectual diversity with ideological diversity undermines the principles of this.
What is higher education?
Accreditation relies heavily on these types of individuals to carry out the work.
What are volunteers?
True or False: It’s common sense that an A student from a low-income family will have an 80% chance of completing college.
What is false?
As states continue to face questions about college affordability, declining state support can shift more of the cost of public higher education onto whom?
Who are students and their families?
This level of government plays the biggest financial role in higher education.
What are state governments?
The ratio of liberals to conservatives varies across disciplines, with _____ & ______ among the most liberal.
What are humanities & social sciences?
The focus of accreditation has moved from inputs and resources to ____ and ___.
What are outcomes and effectiveness?
In the 2022 Corinthian College’s bailout, defrauded borrowers are denied a full refund if their loans had reached this payment status.
What is “paid in full/off”?
Baum identifies equity and this second goal as the two basic economic justifications for government involvement in higher education.
What is efficiency?
This law established land-grant colleges to support science and disseminate knowledge.
What are the Morrill Acts?
Gross stated this as the final conclusion for why faculty are more liberal.
Why are liberals more likely to pursue advanced degrees and become professors than conservatives?
Accreditation has an evolving relationship with this type of government.
What is the federal government?
Extra credits that extend a program’s length unnecessarily.
What is “Credit Creep”?
Brittingham reminds us that accreditation historically acts as a buffer between colleges and government while significantly preserving this institutional value.
What is institutional autonomy?
Without significant government involvement in research, society would be poorer in ___ and ___.
What is wealth and knowledge?
Kevin Gannon states, "when you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like..."
What is oppression?
The National Commission on Accreditation was formulated in this year, with the goal of reducing the duplication and burden to institutions resulting from multiple accreditors.
What is 1949?
When an institution is responsible for some, or all, of defaulted student loan debt.
What is “Risk Sharing”?
This type of faculty protection is closely connected to preserving academic freedom.
What is tenure (or tenure protection)?
The Higher Education Act of 1965 established the principle of federal aid for low-income students aimed at eliminating higher education's ______ _____.
What is poverty gap?
Safe spaces and trigger warnings are criticized, based on _______ of what they are the functions they serve.
What are fundamental misunderstandings?
This is an organization of institutions accredited by a recognized accreditor for which 50% or more of its institutions are degree-granting.
What is the Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA)?
This Senator pushed to give colleges legal authority to counsel students against over-borrowing.
Who is Lamar Alexander?
Academic freedom includes freedom of inquiry and research, freedom of teaching, and this third freedom involving expression outside those roles.
What is freedom of extramural utterance and action?