A New Agenda for Higher Education: Shaping a Life of the Mind for Practice (Jossey-Bass/Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching)

8月 24, 2009 · Posted in Higher Education News · 1 Comment 

A New Agenda for Higher Education: Shaping a Life of the Mind for Practice (Jossey-Bass/Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching)

In A New Agenda for Higher Education, the authors endorse higher education???s utility for enhancing the practical as well as intellectual dimensions of life by developing a third, different conception of educational purpose. Based on The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching seminar that brought together educators from six professional fields with faculty from the liberal arts and sciences, A New Agenda for Higher Education proposes an educational aim of ???practical reason,??? fo

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Diversity’s Promise for Higher Education: Making It Work

8月 12, 2009 · Posted in Higher Education It · Comment 

Diversity’s Promise for Higher Education: Making It Work

Daryl G. Smith’s career has been devoted to studying and fostering diversity in higher education. She has witnessed and encouraged the evolution of diversity from an issue addressed sporadically on college campuses to an imperative if institutions want to succeed. In Diversity’s Promise for Higher Education, she analyzes how diversity is practiced today and offers new recommendations for effecting lasting and meaningful change.Smith argues that in the next generation of work on diversity, studen

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The Modern American College: Responding to the New Realities of Diverse Students and a Changing Society (Jossey-Bass Series in Higher Educaton)

8月 12, 2009 · Posted in Higher Educaton · Comment 

The Modern American College: Responding to the New Realities of Diverse Students and a Changing Society (Jossey-Bass Series in Higher Educaton)

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8月 8, 2009 · Posted in Mn Office Of Higher Education · 1 Comment 

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All research content shall be under university surveillance. Academic freedom must take second place to security from terrorism. Only disciplines that pay their way will earn the right to survive in the university of the future.

Within a few years, Cary Nelson and Stephen Watt argue, higher education as we have known it may largely cease to exist. Universities are increasingly profit-driven, and the faculty seems increasingly passive in the face of political and economic pressures. Offic

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