FHEAP Goes to Washington, D.C. (photo essay)   

 Rep. Boyd's semi-literate written response (pdf), 2 years late! 

FHEAP Meets the US Secretary of Education

FHEAP in Wall Street Journal

FHEAP's US DOE Rulemaking Public Comments (Nov 2006)

Contact FHEAP

 

ACCREDITATION in Higher Ed 

A RARE Look Behind the Accreditation Curtain

Flawed Logic of Regional Accreditation (Troutt, 1979 J of HE article)

Cracks Begin to Show in 100 Year Old System (FHEAP)

What the Regional Associations are really thinking (ERIC link)    

US Office of Inspector Gen Audit of (link to US DOE/OIG Findings)

 

Rare Example of Accreditation Review in the South
Another Rare Example of SACS Accreditation Review 

SACS Falling Behind Other Regionals
SACS Regulatory Violations

SACS' Peer Consistency Review Study 2006 (link to SACS document)
FHEAP's Comments on SACS' 2006 Study
US Dept of Ed Staff Report on SACS (link to InsideHigherEd)
SACS Peer Reviewer Selection Process
SACS' Slide into Mediocrity   (FL DOE doc link) 

SACS on Faculty Qualifications: But Where's Dual Enrollment?

 

Higher Education Act (HEA 1992)

  -- Legislative Intent (Sec. 496)

 

Scholar's Corner

  -- Unqualified Faculty, Univ of Paris (c. 1215)

  -- Out-of-Field assignment problem [forthcoming]

           

Rhetoric and Lies

  -- College v High School Wage Premium Myths (EPI article)

 -- Student Loans: Where SLM's Eagle II rules the Roost!

 

Credential Inflation
Randall Collins, Credential Inflation and the Future of Universities (2002)

  -- The Monster that Ate My College Degree (WSJ article)

  -- "The Dirty Secret of Higher Education" by Randall Collins (2002)

  -- The Credential Society (1979), Randall Collins, pages 191-204

  -- Review of Van de Werfhorst and Anderson, "Social Background, Credential Inflation and Educational Strategies," Acta Sociologica (Dec 2005) 48 (4): 321-340.  

  --UPenn Story on Ivar Berg and Randall Collins on Credential Inflation

 

Theory

  -- Max Weber, Edward Shils' Introduction to Max Weber on the University (1974)

 -- Max Weber in 1917 (photo)

 -- Weber, Michels, Marcuse and Bauman: Toward a Bureaucratic Theory

 -- Randall Collins on Stephan Fuchs, Against Essentialism (2001)

 -- Cusp Catastrophe model of Faculty Job Satisfaction
 -- War in Heaven / Heaven on Earth: Theories of the Apocalyptic (publishers' link)

 

Neo-Institutional Classic papers:

The Structure of Educational Organizations / John W. Meyer & Brian Rowan (1978)

 

John Taylor Gatto, The Underground History of American Education (2006)
John Taylor Gatto's Website

John Dewey's Brain