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Mesa redonda sobre los próximos diez años de la educación superior en América Latina
Una conversación entre Simon Schwartzman, Flavio Felipe Figallo Rivadeynera, Juan David Parra, Yezid Orlando Perez Alemán, y Iván Pacheco. Se la puede encontrar en el link abajo. Mesa Redonda
Is your degree program too complicated? Poor design and needless bloat are derailing students
This is an initiative needed worldwide! [A] new push involving dozens of colleges is attempting to untangle curricular complexity and encourage more professors to think about their role in retaining and graduating students. It is the latest in a series of projects to...
Long way to go for parity for women in leadership
The latest International Brief for Higher Education Leaders from the American Council on Education (ACE) and the Center for International Higher Education (CIHE), titled Women’s Representation in Higher Education Leadership Around the World, reveals the “unfinished”...

Rankings como referencia, no como obsesión
Comentario por Teodoro Luque, 21 mayo 2021. [L]os rankings son una herramienta a la que se puede sacar utilidad. No son sujetos que tengan derechos y obligaciones, quienes los utilizamos sí, y debiéramos ser cautelosos con su uso y evitar el abuso. Full text here.
US college’s student inventors gaining national attention
Paul Basken | Times Higher Education| We constantly underestimate the potential of undergraduate students by not giving them "real" problems to solve! For the past 20 years, Hulman Institute of Technology, a private rural campus of about 2,000 undergraduates, has been...