Current Topics in Higher Education

There is no reading material for this session.

• Tears on the Bench | Avidly
• Why and How to Become a Public Scholar | Inside Higher Ed
• What Does the Research Say?: Innovative Research on Abusive Partner Intervention Programs | Center for Justice Innovation (Video)
• A Place in the City (2017), dir. Nate Lavey and Stephen Vider | Museum of the City of New York (Video)
• Math Course Make Environmental Impact in the Local Community

• 100 Thousand Billion Bryn Mawrs

Readings 

• Faust, Drew. “U.S. Higher Education is Endangered.” Boston Globe, May 23, 2024 
• Rosenberg, Brian. “Higher Ed’s Ruinous Resistance to Change,” Chronicle of Higher Education, September 25, 2023 

Required Reading:

• Chapter on Finance by Brian C. Mitchell and W. Joseph King

Additional Background Reading:

• Bryn Mawr College Financial Statements
• What is an Endowment for a College?
• Understanding Endowments: Types and Policies That Govern Them
• Additional Information

Required Readings:

• Chapter on Shared Governance: Its History and its Challenges by Susan R Pierce

BMC Governance Documents:

• The Foundation of the College's Shared Goverance 
• Plan of Governance
• Faculty
• Self-Governance Association (SGA)
• GSAS Graduate Student Association
• GSSWSR Graduate Student Association