Coming to Grips with Higher Education
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1475838433
ISBN-13
9781475838435
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 1st, 2018
Print length
192 Pages
Weight
295 grams
Dimensions
21.90 x 15.10 x 1.50 cms
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This book raises some inconvenient truths about higher education, and it challenges several of its cherished assumptions. It then offers specific recommendation for fundamental changes in institutional mission and funding, financial aid, academic curricula and student learning, campus spending, faculty tenure, and intercollegiate athletics.
The American university faces many challenges. It has become too costly and inefficient. It fails too many students. It spends too much time and money on matters that should not be its priorities. It clings to policies and practices that need to go away. And it is too disconnected from the students and communities it must serve.This book proposes several changes to standard policies in our colleges and universities that will sharpen their missions, redirect funding to the highest priorities, improve student learning and attainment, redefine faculty engagement, slow down spending on amenities, and reduce the excesses of intercollegiate athletics.The recommended reforms remain true to the essential academic values embraced by the academy, but at the same time they recognize and respond to the new realities facing higher education.
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