Showing posts with label Research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Research. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Reflections on Challenges of Church Related Colleges and Universities

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Chris Gehrz, professor of history at Bethel University in MN, posts weekly for the Anxious Bench on a variety of topics. Chris offered ref...
Saturday, January 26, 2019

Weekend Thoughts on College Closures...

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Scanning higher education news and social media the last week or two feels a bit like it did back in March 2015 when Sweet Briar College an...
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Monday, January 22, 2018

Snapshot of Black Higher Education in the 1920s

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The U.S. Bureau of Education organized an extensive study of black colleges and universities that is available at no charge as a .pdf, ...
Monday, January 16, 2017

Canton College: Brief History of an Early Illinois Institution

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A brief history of Canton College in Canton, IL is offered in " The forgotten history of Canton's first College ," on Januar...
Friday, November 13, 2015

Bethel at War...excellent example of a digital history and institutional stories

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Chris Gehrz posted a description on The Pietist Schoolman blog of web pages devoted to the history of Bethel University during this pas...
Friday, August 14, 2015

America's Lost Colleges...Historical Sketches of 200+ Institutions

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Paul Batesel, a former colleague and emeritus professor of English at Mayville State University has created an amazing site devoted to th...
Thursday, July 2, 2015

A New Study Looks at Students who attend Women's Colleges, 1971-2011

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Kathy Wyer authored a summary of a recent study by Linda Sax,  “Who Attends a Women’s College?  Identifying Unique Characteristics and P...
Monday, December 1, 2014

Academic Degrees...history and practice of awarding degrees

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ERIC offers .pdfs of Academic Degrees: Earned and Honorary Degrees Conferred by Institutions of Higher Education in the United States .  T...
Friday, August 8, 2014

Philanthropy in the History of American Higher Education

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I was recently fortunate to find a copy of Philanthropy in the History of American Higher Education by Jesse Brundage Sears with an in...
Wednesday, May 1, 2013

When Colleges Close...

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Chris Gehrz has added a couple of recent posts on his The Pietist Schoolman blog that explore data on institutional closures.   The fi...
Friday, January 25, 2013

Wisconsin Business University

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A Brief History of the Wisconsin Business University, La Crosse, Wisconsin is available as a .pdf file.  The author, Richard Rogers, com...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Study of Factors Leading to Closure of 40 Colleges

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Terry Province studied early indicators linked to college closure and the dissertation is available .  His review of literature in Chapter ...
Monday, July 11, 2011

Identity and Mission in Jesuit Higher Education

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  R. Eric Platt’s Ph.D. dissertation, Sacrifice and Survival: The Historiographic Role of Identity and Mission in Jesuit Higher Education...
Sunday, October 24, 2010

Searching for Records of Closed Catholic Women's Colleges

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Fernanda Perrone's paper, Vanished Worlds: Searching for the Records of Closed Catholic Women's Colleges , summarizes results of a s...
Saturday, September 18, 2010

Why do colleges fail?

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On the Brink of Disaster? an article in August 2009 by David J. Koon on the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy website explores issu...