by Ralph Enlow | Aug 6, 2017 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Biblical Higher Ed |
Last, but not least … We now come to the last in my series of twelve modest US higher education policy proposals. Policy proposal #12: Confessional colleges—and not merely those that prepare professional religious workers—should be affirmed and protected by...
by Ralph Enlow | Jul 23, 2017 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Biblical Higher Ed |
Diversity, not uniformity In my previous post, “Quality peers, not quality police,” I observed that accreditation by means of peer review has produced the most diverse, envied, and emulated higher education landscape in the world. This is no private assessment. It is...
by Ralph Enlow | Jul 9, 2017 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Biblical Higher Ed |
An appeal against academic protectionism Continuing my series on US higher education policy, I now turn to the matter of transfer credit policy. I offer this simple thesis, higher education policy proposition #10: Government policy should support student mobility in...
by Ralph Enlow | Jun 18, 2017 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Biblical Higher Ed |
As I continue in this series on higher education policy, I now shift from policy considerations related to student financial aid to the government’s role in educational quality assurance. Consider my higher education policy proposition #9: Government policy should...
by Ralph Enlow | Jun 4, 2017 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Biblical Higher Ed |
Shhh! Here’s a dirty little secret: the government profits from student loans—big time. Annual student loan interest revenue to the federal coffers amounts to $29 billion. Well, before you count the cost of loan forgiveness and defaults anyway. But, in government,...
by Ralph Enlow | May 28, 2017 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Biblical Higher Ed |
Home stretch We’ve now turned the corner in this series on higher education policy. Are you still with me? In this post, I invite you to consider my seventh of twelve propositions relative to national higher education policy. Higher education policy proposition #7:...