URI Blue Ribbon Commission—Reading Suggestions Provided to the Commission

These reading suggestions were provided to the Blue Ribbon Commission on the Future of URI by Andrew Harris, February, 2009.

Much data is already gathered at the URI Planning Services website.

Defining the Future of the University of Rhode Island: An Academic Vision (pdf)
Building the Future at the University of Rhode Island: Research, Innovation and Economic Growth. The URI Commission on Research and Innovation, 2008 (pdf)
Trends Impacting Higher Education and URI: Summary of Demographic and Financial Trends. Prepared by Planning Services at URI (pdf)
URI Branding Initiative (various)

Boyer Commission report (report)
Kellogg Commission on the Future of State and Land Grant Universities (1999) (here)
National Leadership Council for Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP), (2007). College Learning for the New Global Century. Washington, D.C.: American Association of Colleges and Universities here(purchase site)
Common Ground World Universities Form (2008) (here)
Measuring Up. National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. (here)
Ronald Ehrenberg, ed., What’s Happening to Public Higher Education? The Shifting Financial Burden (Westport, CT: ACE Praeger, 2006)
Christopher Newfield, Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008)
Frank Newman, Lara Couturier, Jamie Scurry, The Future of Higher Education: Rhetoric, Reality, and the Risks of the Market (Jossey-Bass, 2004)

Squeeze Play 2009: The Public’s Views on College Costs Today. Public Agenda and the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education (here)
Trends in College Spending. The Delta Cost Project. (pdf)
Ten Public Policy Issues for Higher Education in 2007 and 2008. Public Policy Paper Series. Washington, DC: Association of Governing Boards.

Madeleine Green, Dao T. Luu, Beth Burris, Mapping Internationalization on US College Campuses: 2008 Edition (ACE, 2008) here (purchase site)