News and Notes

Once again, the updates from the National Humanities Alliance can be found on their website. Here is the August report.

The Commission on the Future of Higher Education met on August 10 to ratify their report that will be edited and prepared for delivery to Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings in September. The DOE has already announced that they will hold a series of meetings to discuss how the federal rule making process can be used to implement parts of the report. With the release of the near final draft, several organizations have weighed in with comments. The Association of American Colleges and Universities has been working for most of this century on improving undergraduate education with their Greater Expectations initiative. Their response to the Commission is quite pointed about what was missed. Also, the Association of American Universities issued a report earlier that was critical of draft two of the report.

And finally, for those of you who have enjoyed Cliff Adelman’s reports from the Department of Education, he is moving to the Institute for Higher Education Policy, as reported in Inside Higher Education.