Higher Education in America (eBook)

Revised Edition

Derek Bok (Autor)

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2015 | Revised Edition
496 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6612-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Derek Bok is the 300th Anniversary University Research Professor at Harvard University. He served as the twenty-fifth president of Harvard from 1971 to 1991, and he served again as interim president from 2006 to 2007. His many books include Our Underachieving Colleges, Universities in the Marketplace, and the acclaimed best seller The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions (all Princeton).

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A sweeping assessment of the state of higher education today from former Harvard president Derek BokHigher Education in America is a landmark work--a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the current condition of our colleges and universities from former Harvard president Derek Bok, one of the nation's most respected education experts. Sweepingly ambitious in scope, this is a deeply informed and balanced assessment of the many strengths as well as the weaknesses of American higher education today. At a time when colleges and universities have never been more important to the lives and opportunities of students or to the progress and prosperity of the nation, Bok provides a thorough examination of the entire system, public and private, from community colleges and small liberal arts colleges to great universities with their research programs and their medical, law, and business schools. Drawing on the most reliable studies and data, he determines which criticisms of higher education are unfounded or exaggerated, which are issues of genuine concern, and what can be done to improve matters.Some of the subjects considered are long-standing, such as debates over the undergraduate curriculum and concerns over rising college costs. Others are more recent, such as the rise of for-profit institutions and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Additional topics include the quality of undergraduate education, the stagnating levels of college graduation, the problems of university governance, the strengths and weaknesses of graduate and professional education, the environment for research, and the benefits and drawbacks of the pervasive competition among American colleges and universities.Offering a rare survey and evaluation of American higher education as a whole, this book provides a solid basis for a fresh public discussion about what the system is doing right, what it needs to do better, and how the next quarter century could be made a period of progress rather than decline.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: The William G. Bowen Series
• Reihe/Serie: The William G. Bowen Series
• Zusatzinfo: 5 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: academic degree • academic freedom • Academic Institution • academic standards • Academic tenure • Accreditation • alumnus • Association of American Colleges and Universities • business education • Business School • Career • Classroom • College and university rankings • community college • cost reduction • coursework • credential • critical thinking • Criticism • Curriculum • Distance Education • Doctor of Philosophy • Economic Growth • economist • Education • educational aims and objectives • Educational attainment • educational program • Educational technology • Education in the United States • Employment • extracurricular activity • Faculty (academic staff) • Foreign Language • For-profit higher education in the United States • freshman • Funding • Governance • government agency • Grading (education) • Graduate school • Graduation • Harvard Business School • higher education • Homework • income • Institution • Law School • learning • Lecture • lecturer • Legal Education • Liberal arts education • master's degree • medical school • New Course • Nonprofit Organization • of education • Pedagogy • Pell Grant • percentage • Postdoctoral researcher • Private School • private university • Profession • Professional responsibility • Professional School • Professor • Publication • Public university • Publish or Perish • Rakesh Khurana • remedial education • Requirement • Research and Development • salary • SAT • Scholarship • Scientist • secondary education • Secondary School • Social Science • Student • student loan • Students' union • Subsidy • Tax • Teacher • Teaching Method • Technology • Technology Transfer • Test (assessment) • The Chronicle of Higher Education • Tuition payments • undergraduate education • University • University and college admission • University of Chicago • Writing • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6612-X / 140086612X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6612-0 / 9781400866120