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May 12, 2008
Pennsylvania's Higher-Education System Selects New Leader
John C. Cavanaugh, president of the University of West Florida, will become the new leader of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, which includes 14 state-owned universities, the system’s board announced today.
Mr. Cavanaugh, who has led the University of West Florida since 2002, will take over as chancellor of the Pennsylvania system on July 1.
In 2006 he and his wife wrote an opinion piece for The Chronicle in which they argued that American colleges and universities, facing pressures to reduce costs, would be forced to face the same reality of global competition that American businesses had already met. And that, they argued, could lead to an “extremely dangerous” outcome: the franchising of postsecondary education overseas, which could blur the American brand of education and cause the United States to lose its competitive edge. —Sara Hebel
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What fascinates me as I interact with the universities and colleges is how little entrepreneurial effort is engaged or celebrated in the institutions.
Mr, Cavanaugh may argue that being entrepreneurial will lead to a dangerous outcome, but realistically, education is a huge business in the world and Pennsylvania would be well advised to sell globally as well as locally.
I will think about this some and expand on it on my blog at www.learningcurved.com.
Regards,
Michael D. Goodman
— Michael Goodman May 12, 03:47 PM #
This is Kim Spear’s president. Interesting.
— Michael May 12, 03:59 PM #
Mr. Goodman is correct that higher ed is a huge business worldwide. However, qualitative oversight of faraway programs is very difficult and several regionally accredited institutions have run into problems by thinking of overseas operations as milk cows while neglecting to determine whether programs were academically comparable to those in the U.S.
The other problem is that the U.S. department of education only recognizes the U.S. operations of U.S. accreditors – such accreditors have no federal oversight for foreign activities, though they often stretch the truth by referring to themselves as federally-recognized accreditors while operating in foreign countries.
— Alan Contreras May 12, 05:03 PM #
Congratulations to Dr. Cavanaugh. It is unfortunate that UWF has experienced so many good faculty and staff leaving for other states. The political and economic situation in Florida is truly hurting the state’s higher education system. This strikes me as extremely sad as it once had great potential.
— Kyle David May 13, 12:28 PM #