The Right of Passage: A Day in the Life of a College Graduate
By Watson Scott Swail, President and CEO of Educational Policy Institute and EPI International It’s 7:30am. We’re supposed to be at the Ohio Stadium to begin security screening for today’s commencement exercise for The Ohio State University. Before the afternoon is over, over 12,000 degrees will be conferred in front of approximately 70,000 people. Over 70,000 people at Ohio State University’s Graduation, May 5, 2013. Today is … Continue reading The Right of Passage: A Day in the Life of a College Graduate
Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place
by Watson Scott Swail, President and CEO of Educational Policy Institute and EPI International This morning, an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, titled Why Professors at San Jose State Won’t Use a Harvard Professor’s MOOC, illustrates an upcoming shootout at the MOOC Corral. San Jose State University professors are rejecting a Harvard MOOC course that is being forced upon them by the administration. In a … Continue reading Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Why We May Not be the Envy of the World
By Watson Scott Swail, President & CEO, Educational Policy Institute/EPI International Earlier this week, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria wrote a piece in Time Magazine (also in a segment on CNN) titled The Thin Envelope Crisis about US Higher education with consideration of the letters that are currently going out to over one million students regarding their acceptance or rejection. As Zakaria says, “For all the problems with … Continue reading Why We May Not be the Envy of the World
Because Higher Ed Teaching Matters
by Watson Scott Swail, President and CEO of Educational Policy Institute and EPI International With the Annual AERA Conference (and a big congrats to my friend Bill Tierney, the AERA president, for heading this great organization) convening next week in cold and overrated San Francisco, this is perhaps a good opportunity to talk about teaching and learning in higher education. I’ve always been astonished how little we … Continue reading Because Higher Ed Teaching Matters
Destined to Fail?
by Watson Scott Swail, President & CEO, Educational Policy Institute and EPI International For the past two decades, I have followed higher education trends and practices as part of my work at The College Board, SRI International, the Council for Opportunity in Education, The Pell Institute, and, of course, the Educational Policy Institute and EPI International. My first detail focused on student access and persistence, … Continue reading Destined to Fail?
The Swail Letter on Higher Education 