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News From The Center
Center Program Associates
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THIRTEEN MID-CAREER professionals have
been selected as Program Associates by the National
Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
for 2001-2002. The Associates program, supported
by the Ford Foundation, is designed to engage scholars
and leaders interested in addressing current public policy
issues in higher education through involvement in the
work of the National Center.
The Associates will attend three policy symposia a
year and will contribute in other ways to the National
Center’s agenda and activities.
The group includes faculty members, postdoctoral
students, graduate students and early-to-mid-career
professionals in policy-related positions in state government
and foundations.
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Derek V. Price
Director of Higher Education Research,
Lumina Foundation for Education |
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Lara Couturier
Project Manager, The Futures Project: Policy
for Higher Education in a Changing World,
at Brown University. |
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Emlei M. Kuboyama
Director of Policy Development at Policy
Analysis for California Education (PACE),
Graduate School of Education,
University of California, Berkeley |
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Jaime A. Molera
Policy Advisor for Legislative Affairs, Office of
the Governor, State of Arizona |
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Brian Pusser
Assistant Professor, Center for the Study of
Higher Education, Curry School of Education,
University of Virginia |
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Marlene L. Garcia
Principal Consultant, California State Senate
Office of Research |
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Steven M. LaNasa
Assistant Director of Human Resources,
George Mason University |
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Christopher Morphew
Assistant Professor in the Higher Education
Administration Program, University of Kansas |
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Kenneth E. Redd
Director of Research and Policy Analysis,
National Association of Student Financial Aid
Administrators |
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Patrick Kelly
Senior Associate for Information and Research,
Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education |
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Michael K. McLendon
Assistant Professor of Higher Education Policy,
Vanderbilt University |
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Karen Paulson
Research Associate, National Center for Higher
Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) |
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| Scott L. Thomas
Assistant Professor of Higher Education,
University of Hawaii, Manoa |
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National Center Seeks Suggestions
THE NATIONAL CENTER for Public Policy and
Higher Education is reviewing the data and
methodology to be used in the next edition of the
state-by-state report card —Measuring Up 2002— and
invites suggestions for improvements.
The Center has commissioned a special committee,
headed by David Breneman, dean of the Curry School of
Education at the University of Virginia, to guide the
review. Other committee members include Margaret
Miller, of the University of Virginia; Richard Wagner,
former executive director of the Illinois Board of Higher
Education; Emerson Elliott, National Council for the
Accreditation of Teacher Education; Dennis Jones and
Peter Ewell of the National Center for Higher Education
Management Systems; and Susan Hodges Moore, Kentucky
Council on Postsecondary Education. The review
begins immediately.
Suggestions should be sent to Patrick M. Callan or Joni
E. Finney at the National Center, 152 North Third Street,
Suite 705, San Jose, CA, 95112; phone: (408) 271-2699;
fax: (408) 271-2697; e-mail: center@highereducation.org.
Letters To The Editor
Editor:
On behalf of DeVry, thank you for profiling our institution in
the winter issue of National CrossTalk. We appreciate the
thorough effort made by the writer, Alexander Russo, in
researching and examining various facts of our institution, as
he talked with numerous faculty, staff, students and
educational experts in order to understand DeVry.
In his profile of our school, Alexander accurately described
DeVry as an institution that has been successful in
providing technology education with an emphasis on the
needs of students. As a multi-faceted educational system, our
goal is to provide high-quality, career-oriented bachelor’s
degree programs in business and technology to a diverse
student population.
Regarding Alexander’s characterization of DeVry’s 70-year
history as a “roller coaster ride,” however, I must
disagree. Since our founding as a single campus in 1931,
DeVry has slowly and consistently evolved into an
international higher education system, recognized as a leader
in business and technology-based education. The expansion
of our campus locations, curricula, degree offerings and delivery
methods has been very deliberate, designed to meet
the needs of students and employers. Our success, best
measured by the success of our students, has grown dramatically
over the past 70 years.
The article also referenced a student lawsuit recently filed
by three former DeVry students who allege that DeVry
graduates do not have appropriate skills for employability in
the computer information systems field. Given that this class-action
student complaint represents the opinions of only
three of the institution’s more than 200,000 graduates, we
believe that the lawsuit was overemphasized in the article.
Lawsuits that represent students’ complaints are no longer
unusual in higher education, and many colleges and
universities find themselves having to respond to similar
complaints.
Sharon Thomas Parrott
Vice President of External Relations and Student Finance,
DeVry, Inc.
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