| A Student's-Eye View of Education's Fall and Decline: Explores why a more innovative and progressive approach to education is held back by an institutional mindset that is threatened by, and even hostile to, revolutionary changes. |
| American Council of Alumni and Trustees: Committed to academic excellence and freedom of expression in higher education. |
| Coalition for Higher Education Act Reform: Recommends revision of the U.S. Higher Education Act which denies or delays financial aid to students with drug offenses. |
| Critical Mass: Dedicated to commentary on the state of American academe. |
| Discourse on Shamefulness: An essay that argues for the traditional literary canon at the English Department in the University of Houston. |
| Foundation Coalition: An NSF-sponsored initiative funding systemic reform in undergraduate engineering education at seven schools. |
| Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: "FIRE is a nonprofit educational foundation devoted to free speech, individual liberty, religious freedom, the rights of conscience, legal equality, due process, and academic freedom" in American universities. |
| Higher Education Act: Reauthorization Status and Issues: A review of U.S. federal education policy, including the Higher Education Act, Pell Grants, student loans, teacher training, and distance education. |
| Impact of Internet on Higher Education: Report examining major university presidents' perceptions of the impact of Internet on education & pressures that promote & inhibit. |
| National Alliance for College Athletics Reform: Dedicated to insuring that big-time college sports do not compromise the educational missions of colleges and universities. |
| Pope Center for Higher Education Policy: Conservative public policy organization publishing white papers and other reports on how to improve higher education. Global in interest, but having a special emphasis on North Carolina. |
| Re-envisioning the Ph.D. Project: Dedicated to fostering national/international discussion and initiatives that address the question: How can we re-envision the Ph.D. to meet the societal needs of the 21st Century? |
| Rutgers After Lawrence: Reforming a Once-Great University: Faculty essay on the reforms needed at Rutgers University to strengthen academics and reduce the destructive impact of Division I athletics. |
| Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship: Goals, activities, newsletter, membership info, and articles on current issues from SAFS, which seeks to uphold academic freedom and high standards against political correctness at universities in Canada. |
| Student Diversity Program at Cal State Fullerton: The SDP is designed to address the retention of "At Risk" students. Using unconventional methods of intervention, SDP has demonstrated over 90% success at California State University, Fullerton. |
| Student Loan Hell: Biblical argument for abolishing the ban on student loan bankruptcy discharge, as well as links to other student loan information sites. |
| The Collegiate Way: Residential Colleges and Higher Education Reform: Reforming campus life by dividing large universities into small residential colleges like those at Oxford and Cambridge. |
| The Futures Project: Analysis of the role market forces play in higher education with the goal of developing and implementing thoughtful, market-oriented policy options. |
| The Irascible Professor: Irreverent commentary on the state of education in America today, by Dr. Mark H. Shapiro and guest writers. |
| The Learning Community Commons: The National Learning Communities Project provides cutting-edge academic learning community work in undergraduate education across the United States. |
| The National Academy for Academic Leadership: The academy educates academic decision makers to be leaders institutional change that improves student learning. Administrators and faculty will develop the knowledge and skills to effect systemic institutional change. |
| The New 'U' - Forbes.com: Derek Bok, former president of Harvard, discusses the quality of American university education and how it can be significantly improved. |
| The Pew Charitable Trusts: Reports from research grantees addressing issues in higher education reform. |
| The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty of America's Campuses: How university administrators, particularly in campus student affairs divisions, have abridged the civil liberties of students and faculty members, and what can be done to redress the problem. |
| Tuition-free MIT: A radical proposal arguing that schools such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which have many ties to wealthy corporations, should not charge their students tuition. |
| University of Illinois College of Medicine Expose: A brief expose by a former medical student of the practices which occurred at the largest medical school in the Midwest in the 1990s. |
| Vermont Campus Compact: A higher education organization promoting greater institutional commitment to community service, service learning, and local partnerships |
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