Our Higher Calling (eBook)

Rebuilding the Partnership between America and Its Colleges and Universities

Buck Goldstein, Holden Thorp (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
208 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-4687-9 (ISBN)

Infos

There is a growing sense of crisis and confusion about the purpose and sustainability of higher education in the United States. In the midst of this turmoil, students are frequently referred to as customers and faculty as employees, educational outcomes are increasingly measured in terms of hiring and salary metrics for graduates, and programs are assessed as profit and loss centers. Despite efforts to integrate business-oriented thinking and implement new forms of accountability in colleges and universities, Americans from all backgrounds are losing confidence in the nations institutions of higher learning, and these institutions must increasingly confront what has proven to be an unsustainable business model. In Our Higher Calling, Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein draw on interviews with higher education thought leaders and their own experience, inside and outside the academy, to address these problems head on, articulating the challenges facing higher education and describing in pragmatic terms what can and cannot change and what should and should not change.They argue that those with a stake in higher education must first understand a fundamental compact that has long been at the heart of the American system: a partnership wherein colleges and universities support the development of an educated and skilled citizenry and create new knowledge in exchange for stable public investment and a strong degree of autonomy to pursue research without undue external pressure. By outlining ways to restore this partnership, Thorp and Goldstein endeavor to start a conversation that paves the way for a solution to one of the countrys most pressing problems.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.7.2018
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Schlagworte: America’s Expectations of Colleges and Universities • Are America’s Colleges and Universities Out of Touch? • Can America’s Colleges and Universities Compete? • Challenges of Faculty Recruiting, Faculty Autonomy • Challenges of Higher Education (in America) • changing • Changing Demands of Higher Education • Diversity and the Future of America’s Colleges and Universities • Expectations of a College Degree • Faculty, Students and Administration in Higher Education • Future of American Colleges and Universities • Higher Education in America • Is Tuition Worth It? • Management of American Universities • Misconceptions in Higher Education • Rebuilding Partnerships in Higher Education • Should Americans Go to College? • Surprising Facts about Higher Education (in America) • Survival of American Colleges and Universities • Value of College Degree • Value of Tuition • Why Americans Go to College
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-4687-0 / 1469646870
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-4687-9 / 9781469646879