Please note that the references provided here are intended for general information in connection with the Oberlin College Strategic Planning process. Inclusion on this website does not constitute endorsement of the views presented. The Oberlin College Strategic Planning Steering Committee is not responsible for these websites or their content.
Why Administrators Should Love Shared Governance
Vaillancourt, Allison. Chroniclevitae.com, September 2, 2014.
Social Mobility Index: Opportunity through US Higher Education
CollegeNET, Inc. and PayScale, Inc., October 16, 2014.
Why Poor Students Struggle
Madden, Vicki. The New York Times, September 21, 2014.
College Too Expensive? That's a Myth
Alexander, Lamar. Wall Street Journal. July 7, 2015.
The Biggest Blown Opportunity in Higher Ed History
Busteed, Brandon. Gallup Business Journal, October 7, 2014.
Is 'Design Thinking' the New Liberal Arts?
Miller, Peter N. The Chronicle of Higher Education. March 26, 2015.
Survey Finds Generation Z to be Motivated Lot
Thadani, Trisha. The Boston Globe, November 18, 2014.
The Future of College?
Wood, Graeme. The Atlantic, August 13, 2014.
Skills In Flux
Brooks, David. New York Times. March 17, 2015.
How to Make Students' Campus Jobs More Meaningful
Gose, Ben. The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 15, 2014.
Remaking College: Innovation and the Liberal Arts
Chopp, Rebecca, Susan Frost, and Daniel Weiss, eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Note: this book is available on campus as an electronic resource. Search obis.oberlin.edu
First-Generation Students Unite
Pappano, Laura. The New York Times. April 8, 2015.
The Link between Financial Aid and Enrollment
Baum, Sandy. Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges Trusteeship Magazine. May-June 2015.
Higher Education Isn't In Crisis
Napolitano, Janet. The Washington Post. March 12, 2015.
Staying Small and Getting Large: Liberal Arts Colleges Need to Embrace Partnerships with Other Entities in a Big Way
Weisbuch, Robert. The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 29, 2014.
After Years Lambasting Teacher-Ed Programs, Art Levine Creates One
Blumenstyk, Goldie. The Chronicle of Higher Education. June 16, 2015.
Universities: Excellence v. Equity
Duncan, Emma. The Economist. March 28, 2015.
Good Mental Health Away From Home Starts Before College
Petersen, Andrea. The Wall Street Journal. April 13, 2015.
How To Make College Cheaper (pdf)
Cohen, Steve. New York Times Op-Ed. February 25, 2015.
Colleges Race to Keep Up with Technology Change
Biemiller, Lawrence. The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 18, 2014.
Demystifying the MOOC
Selingo, Jeffrey J. The New York Times, October 29, 2014.
Heaviest Debt Burdens Fall On 3 Types of Students
The Hechinger Report. U.S. News & World Report. June 8, 2015.
How the Government Exaggerates the Cost of College
Leonhardt, David. The New York Times, July 29, 2014.
Four Radical Ideas for Reinventing College, Drawn from Stanford Research
Rhodes, Margaret. Wired.com, October 2, 2014.
Review: ‘Excellent Sheep,’ William Deresiewicz’s Manifesto
Garner, Dwight. The New York Times, August 12, 2014.
Goals for Enrollment and Tuition Revenue Elude Many Colleges (pdf)
Carlson, Scott. The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 13, 2014.
College Rankings Fail To Measure The Influence of the Institution (pdf)
Stewart, James B. The New York Times. October 1, 2015.
The Ph.D. Student's Ticking Clock
Patel, Vimal. The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 6, 2014.
The Power of the Personal
Chambliss, Daniel F. The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 15, 2014.
Why Colleges with a Distinct Focus Have a Hidden Advantage
Irwin, Neil. The New York Times, September 4, 2014.
Why College Is Not A Commodity (pdf)
Gutting, Gary. The Chronicle of Higher Education. September 11, 2015.
Parents’ Fears Confirmed: Liberal Arts Students Earn Less
Fuller, Andrea. The Wall Street Journal. November 3, 2015.
Demanding More from College
Bruni, Frank. The New York Times, September 6, 2014.
There Are Now 50 Colleges That Charge More Than $60,000 Per Year
Jacobs, Peter. BusinessInsider.com, July 10, 2014.
When College Is Free, or Free (ish) (pdf)
Blumenstyk, Goldie. The Chronicle of Higher Education. July 8, 2015.
The Neoliberal Arts: How college sold its soul to the market (pdf)
Deresiewicz, William. Harpers. September 2015.
Why We Should Fear University, Inc.
deBoer, Frederick. The New York Times Magazine. Sept. 9, 2015.
5 Predictions for Education in 2015
Horn, Michael. The Clayton Christensen Institute Blog, January 8, 2015.
College Rankings Inflation: Are You Overpaying for Prestige?
Hess, Frederick M., Taryn Hochleitner. American Enterprise Institute, May 24, 2012.
The Ugly Truth About Higher Ed: Colleges Neglect Their Mission and Deceive the Public
Vedder, Richard. Forbes.com, October 14, 2014.
Cornell Receives $50 Million to Launch Community Engagement Program
philanthropynewsdigest.org, October 7, 2014.
The Wilds of Education
Bruni, Frank. The New York Times, September 27, 2014.
Beyond The End of College
Roth, Michael. The Atlantic. March 11, 2015.
Shared Governance or Snared Governance?
Weisbuch, Robert. The Chronicle of Higher Education. March 23, 2015.
How Small Colleges Are Finding Ways to Survive (pdf)
Various Authors. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 2015
The Lifetime Learner: A journey through the future of postsecondary education
Hagel III, John, John Seely Brown, Roy Mathew, Maggie Wooll, Wendy Tsu. Deloitte University Press, October 27, 2014.
Why Federal College Ratings Won't Rein in Tuition
Dynarski, Susan. The New York Times, September 21, 2014.
On Leaving Academe
Lane, Terran. The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 19, 2012.
Stanford Extends Free Tuition to More Middle-Class Students
Belkin, Douglas and Melissa Korn. Wall Street Journal. April 3, 2015.
Just What Are the Liberal Arts Anyway?
Gaposchkin, Cecilia. Huffington Post. July 20, 2015.
The Future of College Is Not As Bleak As You Think
Shulevitz, Judith. The New Republic, August 21, 2014.
The Invisible Force Behind College Admissions
McGrath, Maggie. Forbes, July 30, 2014.
New Analysis Shows Problematic Boom in Higher Ed Administrators
Marcus, Jon. HuffingtonPost.com, February 6, 2014.
Colorado College: Liberal Arts Differentiation on the Block Plan
Cleary, Kate. Strategic Insights blog, Art & Science Group, artsci.com, September 22, 2014.
Gallup-Purdue Index Report 2015
Seymour, Sean. Gallup. September 29, 2015.
The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World
Schwartz, Peter, Apr 15, 1996. (Link goes to Amazon.com.)
Tottering Ivory Towers (pdf)
Butler, Stuart. The American Interest, August 11, 2014.
Building a Better College Ranking System. Wait, Babson Beats Harvard?
Carey, Kevin. The New York Times, July 28, 2014.
Education Is Not Like Eating at the Olive Garden
Warner, John. Just Visiting, InsideHigherEd.com, July 20, 2014.
The Future of Universities: The digital degree
The Economist, June 28, 2014.
The Disruption Machine: What the gospel of innovation gets wrong
Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, June 26, 2014.
Nicholas Negroponte TED talk, A 30-Year History of the Future
Filmed March 2014.
Presidents and Professors Largely Agree on Who Should Lead Innovation
Jeffrey Selingo, The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 30, 2013.
How Disruption Can Help Colleges Thrive
Clayton M. Christensen and Michael B. Horn, The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 30, 2013.
College (Un)bound: the future of higher education and what it means for students
Selingo, Jeffrey J. New York: New Harvest Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. (Link goes to author's website.)
