I bought this book after my research chair reviewed my dissertation proposal. He mentioned Kelchen as a starting point to strengthen my argument around accountability. Well, I thought I’d need to gather more after starting with this book, but I didn’t need anything else for my literature review, it’s that thorough!
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An Essential Book for College Administrators and College Libraries
Every college library and every college library should have Robert Kelchen’s Higher Education Accountability. The Seton Hall professor’s book is a great resource for understanding the history, structure and function of US higher education, including the key organizations involved in funding, accreditation, policy-making, lobbying, ranking, and rating of schools. Kelchen joins Marc Bousquet (How the University Works), Best & Best (The Student Loan Mess), Craig Steven Wilder (Ebony and Ivy), Suzanne Mettler (Degrees of Inequality), Tressie McMillan-Cottom (Lower Ed), AJ Angulo (Diploma Mills), Peter Capelli (Will College Pay Off?), Sara Goldrick-Rab (Paying the Price), Ron Stodghill (Where Everybody Looks Like Me), Paul Gaston (Higher Education Accreditation), David Halperin (Friends in High Places and Stealing America’s Future) and a handful of others for its contribution to the understanding of the ongoing US College Meltdown. By College Meltdown, I am referring to the long downward trend in US college enrollment and public opinion about college, and a long upward trend in college debt, the use of faculty adjuncts, and system inequality. Important concepts include the Chivas Regal Effect (people believe high price and quality are linked) and the Performance Paradox (creating a metric will encourage organizations to game the system). Important policies include the Morrill Act (I and II), the Serviceman’s Readjustment Act, the Higher Education Act, the Obama administration’s gainful employment and defense to repayment policies, and the Trump administration’s attempts to rollback accountability. Key metrics include financial responsibility scores, institutional credit ratings, student loan repayment rates, and graduation rates. Key organizations in the book include AAUP, ACE, ACICS, Apollo Education Group, APSCU, CHEA, C-REC, Bill and Melinda Gates, Lumina, NACIQI, the three major credit rating organizations, the seven regional accreditors, the Debt Collective, and many others. I wish Kelchen had included NACUBO, the National Student Clearinghouse, Navient and Sallie Mae, Pearson, the big banks, the CFPB and FTC, SEIU Faculty Forward, other student debt groups, including Student Loan Justice, the Everest Avengers, ITT Tech Warriors, and I Am Ai, watchdog groups like Veterans Education Success, and two funding gatekeepers, VA and DOD. The only glaring weakness in the book is the omission of genocide, slavery, and other forms of oppression that reflected and reinforced inequality in US colleges and the larger social system. But that can be remedied by reading Wilder and Bousquet.
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Every college library and every college library should have Robert Kelchen’s Higher Education Accountability. The Seton Hall professor’s book is a great resource for understanding the history, structure and function of US higher education, including the key organizations involved in funding, accreditation, policy-making, lobbying, ranking, and rating of schools.
An Essential Book for College Administrators and College Libraries
Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2018
Kelchen joins Marc Bousquet (How the University Works), Best & Best (The Student Loan Mess), Craig Steven Wilder (Ebony and Ivy), Suzanne Mettler (Degrees of Inequality), Tressie McMillan-Cottom (Lower Ed), AJ Angulo (Diploma Mills), Peter Capelli (Will College Pay Off?), Sara Goldrick-Rab (Paying the Price), Ron Stodghill (Where Everybody Looks Like Me), Paul Gaston (Higher Education Accreditation), David Halperin (Friends in High Places and Stealing America’s Future) and a handful of others for its contribution to the understanding of the ongoing US College Meltdown.
By College Meltdown, I am referring to the long downward trend in US college enrollment and public opinion about college, and a long upward trend in college debt, the use of faculty adjuncts, and system inequality.
Important concepts include the Chivas Regal Effect (people believe high price and quality are linked) and the Performance Paradox (creating a metric will encourage organizations to game the system).
Important policies include the Morrill Act (I and II), the Serviceman’s Readjustment Act, the Higher Education Act, the Obama administration’s gainful employment and defense to repayment policies, and the Trump administration’s attempts to rollback accountability.
Key metrics include financial responsibility scores, institutional credit ratings, student loan repayment rates, and graduation rates.
Key organizations in the book include AAUP, ACE, ACICS, Apollo Education Group, APSCU, CHEA, C-REC, Bill and Melinda Gates, Lumina, NACIQI, the three major credit rating organizations, the seven regional accreditors, the Debt Collective, and many others. I wish Kelchen had included NACUBO, the National Student Clearinghouse, Navient and Sallie Mae, Pearson, the big banks, the CFPB and FTC, SEIU Faculty Forward, other student debt groups, including Student Loan Justice, the Everest Avengers, ITT Tech Warriors, and I Am Ai, watchdog groups like Veterans Education Success, and two funding gatekeepers, VA and DOD.
The only glaring weakness in the book is the omission of genocide, slavery, and other forms of oppression that reflected and reinforced inequality in US colleges and the larger social system. But that can be remedied by reading Wilder and Bousquet.
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