The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges (eBook)

Derek Bok (Autor)

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2017
240 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8834-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Why efforts to improve American higher educational attainment haven't worked, and where to go from hereDuring the first decade of this century, many commentators predicted that American higher education was about to undergo major changes that would be brought about under the stimulus of online learning and other technological advances. Toward the end of the decade, the president of the United States declared that America would regain its historic lead in the education of its workforce within the next ten years through a huge increase in the number of students earning "e;quality"e; college degrees.Several years have elapsed since these pronouncements were made, yet the rate of progress has increased very little, if at all, in the number of college graduates or the nature and quality of the education they receive. In The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges, Derek Bok seeks to explain why so little change has occurred by analyzing the response of America's colleges; the influence of students, employers, foundations, accrediting organizations, and government officials; and the impact of market forces and technological innovation. In the last part of the book, Bok identifies a number of initiatives that could improve the performance of colleges and universities. The final chapter examines the process of change itself and describes the strategy best calculated to quicken the pace of reform and enable colleges to meet the challenges that confront them.

Autor

Derek Bok is the 300th Anniversary University Research Professor, professor of law, and president emeritus of Harvard University. His many books include Higher Education in America, Our Underachieving Colleges, and Universities in the Marketplace (all Princeton).

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: The William G. Bowen Series
• Reihe/Serie: The William G. Bowen Series
• Zusatzinfo: 12 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: academic degree • academic standards • Academic tenure • Accreditation • adjunct professor • alumnus • Arizona State University • Associate Degree • basic skills • Career • Classroom • Clayton M. Christensen • Collegiate Learning Assessment • community college • Competence (human resources) • Competition • Course credit • coursework • credential • critical thinking • Curriculum • Distance Education • Doctor of Philosophy • Economic Growth • economist • Education • Educational attainment • educational program • Educational technology • education reform • Effectiveness • Emerging Technologies • Employment • Entrepreneurship • Expense • extracurricular activity • Faculty (academic staff) • federal student aid • For-profit higher education in the United States • Funding • Grade inflation • Grading (education) • Graduate school • Graduation • higher education • high school diploma • Homework • Human Resources • income • Institution • learning • Lecture • Liberal arts education • Liberal Education • Literacy • Major (academic) • medical school • National Survey of Student Engagement • of education • Pell Grant • percentage • philanthropy • Politician • Preparedness • Private School • Problem Solving • professional development • Professional School • Professor • public agenda • Public university • Quality Education • Recruitment • remedial education • Requirement • Residential college • salary • secondary education • Secondary School • shortage • Skill • state school • Student • student loan • Subsidy • Suggestion • Tax • Teacher • teaching assistant • Teaching Method • Technology • Test (assessment) • The Chronicle of Higher Education • Tuition payments • undergraduate education • University • vocational education • Western Governors University • Writing • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8834-4 / 1400888344
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8834-4 / 9781400888344