What Universities Can Be

A New Model for Preparing Students for Active Concerned Citizenship and Ethical Leadership

Robert J. Sternberg (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2016
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8014-5378-6 (ISBN)

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In What Universities Can Be, the high-profile educator Robert J. Sternberg writes thoughtfully about the direction of higher education in this country and its potential to achieve future excellence. Sternberg presents, for the first time, his concept of the ACCEL model, in which institutions of higher education are places where students learn to become Active Concerned Citizens and Ethical Leaders. One of the greatest problems in our society is a lack of leaders who understand the importance of behaving in ethical ways for the common good of all. At a time when new models of education are sorely needed, universities have the opportunity to claim the education of future leaders as their mission.

In the course of laying out the ACCEL concept and how such a model might be achieved, Sternberg offers many insights into the realities of higher education as it is practiced today and suggests ways that we could move in a better direction, one that would produce graduates who make the world a better place in which to live. Sternberg’s compelling narrative and convincing argument address all aspects of universities, such as admissions, financial aid, instruction and assessment, retention and graduation, student life, diversity, finances, athletics, governance, and marketing. This book is essential reading for educators and laypeople who are interested in learning how our universities work and how they could work better.

Robert J. Sternberg is Professor of Human Development at Cornell University and Honorary Professor of Psychology at Heidelberg University. He is the author of College Admissions for the 21st Century. He holds thirteen honorary doctorates. Before moving to Cornell, Sternberg was President and Professor of Psychology and Education at the University of Wyoming; Provost, Senior Vice President, Regents Professor of Psychology and Education, and George Kaiser Family Foundation Chair of Ethical Leadership at Oklahoma State University; Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychology and Education at Tufts University; and IBM Professor of Psychology and Education, Professor of Management, and Director of the Center for the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies, and Expertise at Yale University. He is a past president of the American Psychological Association, the Eastern Psychological Association, the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and the International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology, and is currently editor of Perspectives on Psychological Science. He previously was treasurer and board member of the Association of American Colleges and Universities.

Introduction

Part I A New Future for Universities

1. Three Traditions of Higher Education in Relation to Democracy

2. The Mission of the ACCEL University

3. The Skills ACCEL Universities Should Develop

4. Diversity

Part II Who Gets In and Who Is Able to Go?

5. Admissions

6. Financial Aid and College Costs

Part III Student Learning and Life

7. Teaching and Learning

8. Assessing Student Learning

9. Retention and Graduation

10. The Role of Athletics

Part IV Structural Issues

11. Assessing Faculty

12. Governance

13. Marketing Higher Education

14. It's Not Only Students Who Need to Learn: A Model of Institutional Change for Assessing Universities as Learning Organizations

Part V Putting Theory into Practice

15. Transforming a University into an ACCEL University: What One Can Do Right Now

Erscheinungsdatum	26.07.2016
Zusatzinfo	1 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	907 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	0-8014-5378-X / 080145378X
ISBN-13	978-0-8014-5378-6 / 9780801453786
Zustand	Neuware