Curriculum Accreditation And Coming Of Age Of Higher Education

Author : Roger L. Geiger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351523929

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Curriculum, Accreditation and Coming of Age of Higher Education by Roger L. Geiger Pdf

This latest volume in Roger Geiger's distinguished series on the history of higher education begins with a rare glimpse into the minds of mid-nineteenth century collegians. Timothy J. Williams mines the diaries of students at the University of North Carolina to unearth a not unexpected preoccupation with sex, but also a complex psychological context for those feelings. Marc A. VanOverbeke continues the topic in an essay shedding new light on a fundamental change ushering in the university era: the transition from high schools to college.The secularization of the curriculum is a fundamental feature of the emergence of the modern university. Katherine V. Sedgwick explores a distinctive manifestation by questioning why the curriculum of Bryn Mawr College did not refl ect the religious intentions of its Quaker founder and trustees. Secularization is examined more broadly by W. Bruce Leslie, who shows how denominational faith ceded its ascendancy to "Pan-Protestantism."Where does the record of contemporary events end and the study of history begin? A new collection of documents from World War II to the present invites Roger Geiger's refl ection on this question, as well as consideration of the most signifi cant trends of the postwar era. Educators chafi ng under current attacks on higher education may take solace or dismay from the essay "Shaping a Century of Criticism" in which Katherine Reynolds Chaddock and James M. Wallace explore H. L. Mencken's writings, which address enduring issues and debates on the meaning and means of American higher education.

Author : Ryan Skinnell
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781607325055

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Conceding Composition by Ryan Skinnell Pdf

First-year composition became the most common course in American higher education not because it could “fix” underprepared student writers, but because it has historically served significant institutional interests. That is, it can be “conceded” in multiple ways to help institutions solve political, promotional, and financial problems. Conceding Composition is a wide-ranging historical examination of composition’s evolving institutional value in American higher education over the course of nearly a century. Based on extensive archival research conducted at six American universities and using the specific cases of institutional mission, regional accreditation, and federal funding, this study demonstrates that administrators and faculty have introduced, reformed, maintained, threatened, or eliminated composition as part of negotiations related to nondisciplinary institutional exigencies. Viewing composition from this perspective, author Ryan Skinnell raises new questions about why composition exists in the university, how it exists, and how teachers and scholars might productively reconceive first-year composition in light of its institutional functions. The book considers the rhetorical, political, organizational, institutional, and promotional options conceding composition opened up for institutions of higher education and considers what the first-year course and the discipline might look like with composition’s transience reimagined not as a barrier but as a consummate institutional value.

Author : Christian K. Anderson,Amber C. Fallucca
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000383751

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The History of American College Football by Christian K. Anderson,Amber C. Fallucca Pdf

This volume provides unique insight into how American colleges and universities have been significantly impacted and shaped by college football, and considers how U.S. sports culture more generally has intersected with broader institutional and educational issues. By documenting events from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries including protests, legal battles, and policy reforms which were centred around college sports, this distinctive volume illustrates how football has catalyzed broader controversies and progress relating to race and diversity, commercialization, corruption, and reform in higher education. Relying foremost on primary archival material, chapters illustrate the continued cultural, social, and economic themes and impacts of college athletics on U.S. higher education and campus life today. This text will benefit researchers, graduate students, and academics in the fields of higher education, as well as the history of education and sport more broadly. Those interested in the sociology of education and the politics of sport will also enjoy this volume.

Author : Nathan, M. Sorber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000190540

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Change and Continuity in American Colleges and Universities by Nathan, M. Sorber Pdf

Change and Continuity in American Colleges and Universities explores major ideas which have shaped the history and development of higher education in North America and considers how these inform contemporary innovations in the sector. Chapters address intellectual, organizational, social, and political movements which occurred across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and have impacted the policies, scholarship, and practices enacted at a variety of public and private institutions throughout the United States. Topics addressed include the politics of racial segregation, the place of religion in Higher Education, and models of leadership. Through rigorous historical analyses of education reform cases, this text puts forward useful lessons on how colleges and universities have navigated change in the past, and may do so in the future. This text will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and students in the fields of Higher Education, administration and leadership, as well as the history of education and educational reform.

Author : James J. F. Forest,Kevin Kinser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781576078969

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Higher Education in the United States [2 volumes] by James J. F. Forest,Kevin Kinser Pdf

Surveys the changing landscape of American higher education, from academic freedom to virtual universities, from campus crime to Pell Grants, from the Student Privacy Act to student diversity. In the years following World War II, college and university enrollment doubled, students revolted, faculty unionized, and community colleges evolved. Tuition and technology soared, as did the number of first-generation, minority, and women students. These changes radically transformed the American system of postsecondary education. Today, that system is in trouble. Its aging professoriate prepares for retirement, but low academic salaries can no longer attract the best minds to replace them. A flood of corporate dollars funds commercial research, but money for basic research—the seedbed of American scientific preeminence—has dried up. Colleges and universities also face heated competition with for-profit education providers for students, faculty, and external financial support, along with the costs of providing remedial education to growing numbers of students who are unprepared for postsecondary education. Higher Education in the United States provides a comprehensive analysis of these issues and others that scholars and practitioners of higher education study, discuss, and grapple with on a daily basis.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : MINN:30000010539975

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1290 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Education
ISBN : UFL:31262083003698

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Research in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : University of Michigan. School of Education
Publisher : UM Libraries
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015003641183

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Studies in the History of Higher Education in Michigan by University of Michigan. School of Education Pdf

Author : Sungsup Ra,Shanti Jagannathan,Rupert Maclean
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811609831

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Powering a Learning Society During an Age of Disruption by Sungsup Ra,Shanti Jagannathan,Rupert Maclean Pdf

This open access book presents contemporary perspectives on the role of a learning society from the lens of leading practitioners, experts from universities, governments, and industry leaders. The think pieces argue for a learning society as a major driver of change with far-reaching influence on learning to serve the needs of economies and societies. The book is a testimonial to the importance of ‘learning communities.’ It highlights the pivotal role that can be played by non-traditional actors such as city and urban planners, citizens, transport professionals, and technology companies. This collection seeks to contribute to the discourse on strengthening the fabric of a learning society crucial for future economic and social development, particularly in the aftermath of the coronavirus disease.

Author : Clifford Adelman
Publisher : Education Department
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39076002128572

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A Parallel Postsecondary Universe by Clifford Adelman Pdf

This report describes a new system of credentialing that has arisen in the information technology and telecommunications industries over the past decade. It compares this system to traditional higher education, identifying both similarities and dissimilarities, and points to some cases in which the two interact.... The summary section of this report emphasizes the major themes of the certification system and its relationship to higher education: 1. The system is global and operates in many languages. 2. The student, not the institution, is at the center of the system. 3. The system has brought competency-based education and performance assessment to a status they have never enjoyed within traditional higher education. 4. Certification replace neither experience nor degrees, and the IT system does not pretend to be higher education. the summary also indicates the critical need for more information on certification candidates and providers of course work, since the new system is now large enough to play a role in state and national planning for postsecondary education. (HoF/text adopted).

Author : James Steve Counelis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015033997795

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Inheritance and Change in Orthodox Christianity by James Steve Counelis Pdf

Among the essay topics under study are the following: sociobiology and the Pentecost; the male priesthood; the American church-related university; the Americanization of the Orthodox Church; the Ecumenical Patriarchate and her American church; the organ and Orthodox Church music; social/ecclesial statistics of the United States; environmental stewardship; baptism and Resurrection; and the future Ecumenical Council of the Orthodox Church.

Author : American Council on Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015070176063

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Higher Education in Maryland by American Council on Education Pdf

Author : Arthur M. Cohen,Carrie B. Kisker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780470551660

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The Shaping of American Higher Education by Arthur M. Cohen,Carrie B. Kisker Pdf

THE SHAPING OF AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION SECOND EDITION When the first edition of The Shaping of American Higher Education was published it was lauded for its historical perspective and in-depth coverage of current events that provided an authoritative, comprehensive account of??the history of higher education in the United States. As in the first edition, this book tracks trends and important issues in eight key areas: student access, faculty professionalization, curricular expansion, institutional growth, governance, finance, research, and outcomes. Thoroughly revised and updated, the volume is filled with critical new data; recent information from specialized sources on faculty, student admissions, and management practices; and an entirely new section that explores privatization, corporatization, and accountability from the mid-1990s to the present. This second edition also includes end-of-chapter questions for guidance, reflection, and study.???? "Cohen and Kisker do the nation's colleges and universities a much needed service by authoring this volume. The highly regarded histories of American higher education have become badly dated. They ignore the last quarter century when American higher education was transformed. This volume provides comprehensive information on that era." — Art Levine, president, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and author, When Hope and Fear Collide: A Portrait of Today's College Student "The second edition of The Shaping of American Higher Education is a treasure trove of information and insight. Cohen and Kisker provide us with astute and straightforward analysis and commentary on our past, present, and likely future. This book is invaluable to those seeking to go to the heart of the issues and challenges confronting higher education." — Judith S. Eaton, president, Council for Higher Education Accreditation "Arthur Cohen and his collaborator have now updated his superb history of American higher education. It remains masterful, authoritative, comprehensive, and incisive, and guarantees that this work will stand as the classic required resource for all who want to understand where higher education came from and where it is going. The new material gives a wise and nuanced perspective on the current crisis-driven transformations of the higher education industry." — John Lombardi, president, Louisiana State University System "The Shaping of American Higher Education is distinguished by its systematic approach, comprehensive coverage, and extensive treatment of the modern era, including the first years of the twenty-first century. In this second edition, Arthur Cohen??and Carrie Kisker are??especially adept at bringing historical perspective and a balanced viewpoint to controversial issues of the current era." — Roger L. Geiger, distinguished professor, The Pennsylvania State University, and author, Knowledge and Money

Author : Peter T. Ewell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Academic achievement
ISBN : UOM:39015077144502

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U.S. Accreditation and the Future of Quality Assurance by Peter T. Ewell Pdf

A brief history of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation -- Preface -- The challenge of quality to higher education in the decade to come -- About accreditation -- The co-evolution of accreditation and higher education in America -- Accreditation and the academy -- Self-governance in the United States -- Accreditation and government -- CHEA recognition of accrediting organizations -- Taking stock of accreditation -- Into the future. -- Appendix A. Accreditation and the courts -- Appendix B. CHEA Tenth Anniversary Commission -- Appendix C. CHEA Board of Directors -- Glossary of Acronyms.

Author : Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105014220417

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Bulletin by Minneapolis Institute of Arts Pdf