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Higher Education Data and Analysis The AAUP's Department of Research provides an online version of the Association's Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession as well as Selected Sources for Higher Education Data and Analysis. The California Postesecondary Education Commission website provides a wealth of information formatted for quick overviews. Of particular interest is a chart of Legislative Bills and Summaries, Education and Demographic Profiles, and CPEC's page of Reports, Factsheets, and Updates which provides a searchable database of statistical data pertinent to the higher education community. The Council for Higher Education Accreditation website offers an institutional database to follow the status of accreditation processes. The website also provides a directory of participating accreditation organizations and other related information. Additionally, the 2004-05 issue of The Chronicle's Almanac of Higher Education is now online. The almanac is filled with national and state-by-state data on colleges and universities and their students, faculty and staff members, and finances. Though budget cuts make its future uncertain, the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) run by the U.S. Department of Education produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. Illinois State University's Center for the Study of Education Policy hosts Grapevine: A National Database of State Tax Support for Higher Education. The Center's latest published study examines general-fund appropriations to higher education needs in the past year. For fast financial information on most private colleges and universities in the United States, as well as the charitable foundations associated with public sector institutions, the GuideStar National Database of Nonprofit Organizations is an invaluable aid providing pdf copies of institutional 990 tax statements. Viewing 990s is free, but does require establishing a free account with GuideStar if you have not already done so. The Department
of Education also runs the National
Center for Education Statistics (NCES) which provides a
wealth of information and projections. Of particular interest
are their Electronic
Catalog, Postsecondary
Survey and Program Areas, Quick
Tables and Figures, and institutional
search engine. The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education hosts a page entitled Measuring Up 2004 where, among other things, there are summaries of performance results and contextual information for each state as well as an option to compare information from mutiple states. The National Information Center for Higher Education Policymaking and Analysis (sponsored by the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems) provides comparative data for higher education from state-to-state. Of particular interest is the data on benefits, employment, and finance. The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) conducts studies in various areas of California's politics, economy, and demographic to improve public policy in the state. Higher Education Research and Study The American Sociological Association's Task Force on the Implications of the Evaluation of Faculty Productivity and Teaching Effectiveness has has published its final report. The University of Missouri-Columbia hosts the website of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). Back issues of the ASHE's journal, Reviews in Higher Education from 1996/97 through the present are available free of charge from the site. Recent issues of the ASHE's Newsletter may also be accessed by non members. Although much of it is off limits to non-subscribers, The Chronicle of Higher Education (CHE) is a good source for keeping current on news related to the Academy. The Chronicle puts together an annual Almanac of Higher Education with a wealth of information for subscribers, including an Overview of Higher Education Statistics and salary and other financial data pertinent to faculty and administrators. The Chronicle also maintains searchable databases of Executives' Compensation at Public Institutions. The Chronicle also offers a new online resource for Executives' Compensation at Private Institutions. The University of California, Berkeley hosts the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), which provides a rich assortment of materials online. Of particular note are the History of the California Master Plan for Higher Education digital project, and the UC History Digital Archive. The federally maintained grants.gov website is searchable, lists available grants, and includes downloadable applications. The Higher Education Research Institute is run out of the University of California, Los Angeles and manages the Cooperative Institutional Research Program and its Data Services can give researchers access to one of the largest and longest-running longitudinal studies of higher education in the country. The
National
Center for Public Policy and Higher Education provides a
number of reports, some of which are listed below, as well as
updates on individual states. The National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education covers this topic broadly, with a number of papers specific to Higher Education. The site has a search engine for accessing archived research papers. Workplace: The Journal for Academic Labor only exists online, and has an archive of back issues dating back to its founding in 1998. Academic and Intellectual Freedom The American Association for the Advancement of Science opens its membership to anyone interested in the present and future of science. Of particular interest is its Committee on Scientific Freedom, Responsibility, and Law and its goal to reconcile cutting-edge scientific reasearch with issues of society and ethics. "Join the Campus Activism Network", reads this webpage which provides visitors with tools and materials to help activists' events more successful. Challenges for Governance (a collection of papers) CollegeFreedom.org provides information on academic freedom cases as well as a collection of academic freedom policies for various institutions of higher education.The Human Rights Watch has formed the Human Rights Watch Academic Freedom Committee in an effort to pool the expertise of the Human Rights Watch staff and the higher education community. PBS hosts a page dedicated to NOW with Bill Moyers where, among other topics, Moyers discusses the history of academic freedom. The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression grants the "Jefferson Muzzle" to individuals and/or organizations whose attempts at censorship fly in the face of the First Amendment. The national AAUP has an extensive resource page for contingent faculty with links to the Association's 2003 Policy Statement on Contingent Appointments and the Academic Profession, and to a variety of papers on the topic. The Conference on Contingent Academic Labor (COCAL) is a coalition of contingent academic labor activists working to improve higher education through collective achievement of job security, livable wages, academic freedom and time and resources for academic research and professional development for contingent academic laborers. The California Part-Time Faculty Association's website includes a Selected and Annotated bibliography on contingent faculty issues, as well as a variety of papers and links of particular relevance to California's part-time faculty members. -The Association of American Colleges and Universities has a series of pages devoted to Liberal Education. The AAUP, along with hundreds of college and university administrations, has endorsed the AAC&U President's CALL: Campaign for the Advancement of Liberal Learning. The Federal Government has many websites that provide information about the state and future of higher education: -US
Department of Higher Education The State of California has a number of websites that may be of interest to the higher education community: -The California State Assembly -California
Postsecondary Education Commission
-Academic
Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC) CCbenefits has been created in collaboration with the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) to help estimate the economic benefits generated by community colleges. -California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office The state's California Research Bureau has published an interesting report on the composition of California community college faculty. The Community College League of California is a management-oriented organization serving California's 72 Community College districts. They provide a number of publications on their website while their Legislative Office section posts information on legislation passing through Sacramento. Columbia's Teachers College hosts the Community College Research Center which provides a variety of links, briefs, and reports on its homepage. The Center lists its research projects, and has a valuable links page, and makes available a variety of briefs in pdf format or else at relatively low cost.
-Foundation for California
Community Colleges Primarily for prospective students, the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities maintains a website. The University of California's Systemwide Senate produces an online newsletter,The Senate Source. -National
Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS) Latest Higher Education Materials The most recent Digest of Education Statistics for 2003 has been released by the National Center for Education Statistics. According to the NCES this Digest is the 39th in a publication series going back to 1962. The Digest covers American education broadly, and includes statistical material on such things as "the number of schools and colleges, teachers, enrollments, achievement, dropouts, graduates, educational attainment, finances, federal funds for education, libraries, and international comparisons of education." The Federation of American Scientists focuses the resources of the scientific and technical community on matters of public policy. Included on their website for viewing or for purchase is a report on the critical state of scientific advising to Congress and the executive branch of the federal government. Among other projects of potential interest to faculty that are run by FAS is their Project on Government Secrecy. The Politics and Science website deals with the political misuse of scientific information. It offers updated information and special reports. The TIAA-CREF institute website contains a number of grant opportunities, transcripts of speeches, and research papers, inter alia. Other Faculty Advocacy Organizations American
Federation of Teachers Web Resources
for Postdoctoral Fellows -Association for Institutional Research (AIR) The Beacon for Freedom of Expression website is an international database that provides a searchable catalogue of texts that, in the past or presently, have been censored by governmental authorities on political, moral, or religious grounds. It also provides a database of literature that deals with the issues of censorship and freedom of expression. The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning attempts to integrate higher education and research through the dissemination of resources and information. Their site includes an annotated bibliography. -The College and University Personnel Association (CUPA) The Environmental Media Services' science section publishes reports on various aspects of research and funding. The Scholars at Risk Network is an international network of universities and colleges working to promote academic freedom and to defend the human rights of scholars worldwide. Of particular interest is their Research on Academic Freedom page which outlines the issues and provides a bibliography. -Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) The W.E. Upjohn Institute maintains a site relating to employment research. Links to selected publications are available as well as links to data sets, research hubs, and other informational resources. The Washington Monthly College Guide ranks colleges throughout the country according to how well they put taxpayers' money to use. While other guides ask what colleges can do for students, this guide asks what colleges are doing for the country. Workplace Fairness is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving workplace conditions and policies. A your rights page outlines basic information surrounding the workplace and guidelines for setting its conditions. The resources page lists useful information including help in finding an attorney. |
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