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The same is true of academic administrators, whether they are presidents of women’s
colleges
or mixed-gender
colleges
and universities.
Saudi Arabia recognized it in the 1970’s as it sought to expand its influence, and over the years the Kingdom has funded thousands of schools and
colleges
that teach its stringent brand of Wahhabi Islam.
But, while the country now has 621 universities and 33,500 colleges, only a few are world-class institutions, including the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) whose graduates have flourished in America’s Silicon Valley.
In other areas, traditional not-for-profit
colleges
perform better, with higher completion rates and superior labor-market outcomes.
Instead, teaching techniques at
colleges
and universities, which pride themselves on spewing out creative ideas that disrupt the rest of society, have continued to evolve at a glacial pace.
Universities and
colleges
are pivotal to the future of our societies.
In Afghanistan, Colombia, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, and Syria, at least 1,000 schools and
colleges
have been bombed or raided.
TheSun or Bild lack the esteem of the Financial Times or the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and evangelical
colleges
in rural parts of the US cannot compete in terms of cachet with Harvard or Yale.
PEER will connect college-ready Syrian refugees with refugee-ready colleges, and it will eventually be a web-based higher-education conduit for displaced students at all grade levels worldwide.
Surprisingly, however, many American
colleges
are also discriminating against women.
As a result, Chinese graduate from
colleges
and universities having learned relatively little about the outside world in fields such as anthropology, sociology, international relations, comparative literature, and history.
A 2016 survey of 1,000 liberal arts
colleges
found that only 18% required a US history or government course to earn a degree.
There are no threats of a coup d’état, and senior generals, such as Bambang, who studied in American military colleges, returned to Indonesia as convinced democrats.
Student groups have formed on many campuses, and a handful of
colleges
and universities have already pledged to end their investment in fossil fuels.
In Chile,
colleges
such as Duoc UC provide excellent models of institutions that deliver value for students.
With the support of Jusoor, an organization led by Syrian expatriates, the Institute for International Education has created the Syria Consortium for Higher Education in Crisis, a consortium of
colleges
and universities providing scholarships for Syrian students whose education has been disrupted by the conflict.
(China’s top universities now offer two-year programs that emulate the structure of American liberal arts colleges.)
The Exceptionalism of American Higher EducationSTANFORD – In the second half of the twentieth century, American universities and
colleges
emerged as dominant players in the global ecology of higher education, a dominance that continues to this day.
But in the US, with the exception of American military academies, the federal government never succeeded in establishing a system of higher education, and states were too poor to provide much support for
colleges
within their borders.
In these circumstances, early US
colleges
were nonprofit corporations that had state charters but little government money.
As a result, most US
colleges
were built on the frontier rather than in cities; the institutions were used to attract settlers to buy land.
At the same time, religious denominations competed to sponsor
colleges
in order to plant their own flags in new territories.
What this competition produced was a series of small, rural, and underfunded
colleges
led by administrators who had to learn to survive in a highly competitive environment, and where supply long preceded demand.
Most were highly accessible (there was one in nearly every town), inexpensive (competition kept a lid on tuition), and geographically specific
(colleges
often became avatars for towns whose names they took).
By 1880, there were five times as many
colleges
and universities in the US than in all of Europe.
Once states began opening public
colleges
in the mid-nineteenth century, the new institutions adapted to the existing system.
State funding was still insufficient, so leaders of public
colleges
needed to attract tuition from students and donations from graduates.
By the middle of the twentieth century, the US system of higher education reached maturity, as
colleges
capitalized on decentralized and autonomous governance structures to take advantage of the opportunities for growth that arose during the Cold War.
With the exception of the oldest New England
colleges
– the “Ivies” – American universities never developed the elitist aura of Old World institutions like Oxford and Cambridge.
In the twenty-first century, it is not possible for
colleges
to emerge with the same degree of autonomy that American
colleges
enjoyed some 200 years ago, before the development of a strong nation-state.
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