Post-Pandemic Liberal Arts College (eBook)

A Manifesto for Reinvention

Beth Benedix, Steve Volk (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
176 Seiten
Belt Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-948742-98-6 (ISBN)

Infos

A succinct and impassioned call to reimagine and revive the small liberal arts college, by two veteran educators. Private liberal arts colleges have struggled for decades; now, as the COVID-19 pandemic widens cracks latent in many American institutions, they are facing a possibly mortal crisis. In The Post-Pandemic Liberal Arts College: A Manifesto for Reinvention, Steven Volk and Beth Benedix call for small colleges to seize this moment and reinvent themselves. With the rise of rankings that set peer institutions against each other, tuition that outpaces income, creeping pre-professionalism, and a race to build student “customers” the splashiest new amenities, many private liberal arts colleges have strayed from their founders’ missions. If they could shed the mantle of exclusivity, reduce costs, facilitate true social mobility, and collaborate with each other, the authors argue, they might both survive and again become just, equitable, accessible institutions able to offer the transformative and visionary education that is their hallmark. Educators, students, parents, and anyone invested in the future of higher education should read this book.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.12.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: College admissions • College Essays • COVID colleges • financial aid • free tuition • Great Lakes College Association • higher education COVID • Oberlin College • private liberal arts colleges • student loan debt crisis • Student Loans
• ISBN-10: 1-948742-98-5 / 1948742985
• ISBN-13: 978-1-948742-98-6 / 9781948742986