Higher Education On The Brink

Author : Alicia B. Harvey-Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475856644

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Higher Education on the Brink by Alicia B. Harvey-Smith Pdf

Higher education as we have known it has now and forever dramatically changed and so must the previous models that we once held dear. Leaders must take a fresh look at how their institutions design, implement, and measure practices in strategic enrollment management and expand the model, as never before. Higher Education on the Brink: Reimagining Strategic Enrollment Management in Colleges and Universities combines strategies for enrollment enhancement with significant support for development of alternative revenue streams for overall sustainability and growth. It introduces a new model for launching highly engaged strategic planning processes for colleges and universities. With current, real-world examples, the book details how colleges can be guided by integrated strategic planning processes to recalibrate efforts that yield key results. The major difference in this work is an exacting focus on organizational culture and each facet that defines it. As colleges and universities place new focus on strategically re-imagining higher education and their role in it, Higher Education on the Brink will serve as a guide for determining what difficult questions need to be asked and how to answer those questions in a manner that will position the college for the future with support from the college community, generating increased opportunities for student and operational success.

Author : Gilles Paquet,Max Von Zur-Muehlen,Canadian Higher Education Research Network
Publisher : Réseau canadien de recherche pour l'enseignement supérieur = Canadian Higher Education Research Network
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business education
ISBN : UCLA:L0058002791

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Education Canada? by Gilles Paquet,Max Von Zur-Muehlen,Canadian Higher Education Research Network Pdf

Author : Victor E. Ferrall
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674049727

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Liberal Arts at the Brink by Victor E. Ferrall Pdf

Liberal arts colleges represent a tiny portion of the higher education market, yet produce a stunning percentage of America’s leaders. But the demand for career-related education has pressured them to become vocational, distorting their mission and core values. This book is a wake-up call for everyone who values liberal arts education.

Author : Brink, Chris
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781529200362

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The soul of a university by Brink, Chris Pdf

What is the role of a university in society? In this innovative book, Chris Brink offers the timely reminder that it should have social purpose, as well as achieve academic excellence. The current obsession with rankings and league tables has perpetuated inequality and is preventing social mobility. This book shows how universities can – and should - respond to societal challenges and promote positive social change.

Author : Charles M. Ambrose,Michael T. Nietzel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475873276

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Colleges on the Brink by Charles M. Ambrose,Michael T. Nietzel Pdf

Colleges on the Brink is about the financial crises many colleges are facing in the post-pandemic era and how they can be resolved. The tools described require changing how colleges spend money while still maintaining core academic values. Ambrose and Nietzel discuss the conditions involving financial exigency and other major budget overhauls, and they outline how to maximize the likelihood institutions can regain financial health. The challenge these colleges face is to come back from the brink and become leaner, financially stable institutions, ready to provide the education students need.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004465619

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The Responsive University and the Crisis in South Africa by Anonim Pdf

The Responsive University puts forward the proposition that the societal legitimacy of universities depends on whether and how they respond to societal challenges. This issue is exemplified in South Africa, one of the most unequal countries in the world.

Author : Peter Coaldrake,Lawrence Stedman
Publisher : University of Queensland Press(Australia)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : 0702230502

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On the Brink by Peter Coaldrake,Lawrence Stedman Pdf

How well placed are our universities to support the needs of the future? Around the world universities must confront budget pressures and relentless change, with long-standing ideals and traditions called into question. On the Brinkoutlines the big challenges facing higher education and analyses many of the conflicts in this vital but widely misunderstood area.

Author : Jamie Brownlee
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01T00:00:00Z
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781552667521

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Academia Inc. by Jamie Brownlee Pdf

Canadian universities are being slowly but inexorably corporatized. Casualizing academic labour, remaking students into consumers of education, implementing corporate management models and commercializing academic research all point to the ascendance of business interests and values in Canada’s higher education system. Academia, Inc. examines the tensions that result from the merging of two fundamentally incompatible institutions — the university and the corporation. Brownlee argues that moving from liberal education to corporate job training, public service to profit-making and critical research to commercial invention radically undermines the goals of higher education. Investigating the history, causes and impacts of corporatization, this book explores how this transformation has taken shape and its ramifications for both universities and society as a whole. Brownlee suggests several strategies for resisting this process.

Author : Felix Maringe,Emmanuel Ojo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463009027

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Sustainable Transformation in African Higher Education by Felix Maringe,Emmanuel Ojo Pdf

The book is a must read for policy makers, academics, university administrators and post graduate research students in the broad field of education and in higher education studies in particular. The book brings together a wealth of information regarding the imperatives of transformation in Africa’s higher education systems. Not only do some of the chapters provide critical discussion about the conceptualisation of transformation, the majority of the chapters reflect on empirical evidence for transformation in diverse fields of mathematics, science, gender, the training of doctoral students and the governance and management of universities. This central theme of sustainable change and reform runs across the chapters of the book. For students, the book provides exemplars of practical research in higher education. For scholars in higher education and policy makers, specific issues for reform are identified and discussed.

Author : Wendy Fischman,Howard Gardner
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780262547260

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The Real World of College by Wendy Fischman,Howard Gardner Pdf

Why higher education in the United States has lost its way, and how universities and colleges can focus sharply on their core mission. For The Real World of College, Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner analyzed in-depth interviews with more than 2,000 students, alumni, faculty, administrators, parents, trustees, and others, which were conducted at ten institutions ranging from highly selective liberal arts colleges to less-selective state schools. What they found challenged characterizations in the media: students are not preoccupied by political correctness, free speech, or even the cost of college. They are most concerned about their GPA and their resumes; they see jobs and earning potential as more important than learning. Many say they face mental health challenges, fear that they don’t belong, and feel a deep sense of alienation. Given this daily reality for students, has higher education lost its way? Fischman and Gardner contend that US universities and colleges must focus sharply on their core educational mission. Fischman and Gardner, both recognized authorities on education and learning, argue that higher education in the United States has lost sight of its principal reason for existing: not vocational training, not the provision of campus amenities, but to increase what Fischman and Gardner call “higher education capital”—to help students think well and broadly, express themselves clearly, explore new areas, and be open to possible transformations. Fischman and Gardner offer cogent recommendations for how every college can become a community of learners who are open to change as thinkers, citizens, and human beings.

Author : Bryan Penprase,Noah Pickus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780691231488

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The New Global Universities by Bryan Penprase,Noah Pickus Pdf

Reimagining higher education around the world: lessons from the creation of eight new colleges and universities in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and North America Higher education is perpetually in crisis, buffeted by increasing costs and a perceived lack of return on investment, campus culture that is criticized for stifling debate on controversial topics, and a growing sense that the liberal arts are outmoded and irrelevant. Some observers even put higher education on the brink of death. The New Global Universities offers a counterargument, telling the story of educational leaders who have chosen not to give up on higher education but to reimagine it. The book chronicles the development and launch of eight innovative colleges and universities in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and North America, describing the combination of intellectual courage, entrepreneurial audacity, and adaptive leadership needed to invent educational institutions today. The authors, both academic leaders who have been involved in launching ventures similar to the ones described, offer a unique inside perspective on these efforts. Bryan Penprase and Noah Pickus show how the founders of new colleges and universities establish distinctive brands in a sector dominated by centuries-old institutions, secure creative sources of funding, attract stellar faculty and students, and design appealing curriculums and campuses—all while managing tradeoffs and setbacks, balancing local needs and global aspirations, and wrestling with challenges to academic freedom. These new educational institutions include two universities in Asia and the Middle East built by well-established American parent institutions, others in Africa and North America that offer holistic reform from the ground up and leverage new technologies to lower costs, and still others that adapted the American liberal arts model to Asian and African contexts. Their experiences offer lessons for future founders of new universities—and for those who want to renew and rejuvenate existing ones.

Author : Edward J. Maloney,Joshua Kim
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421440972

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The Low-Density University by Edward J. Maloney,Joshua Kim Pdf

COVID-19 has placed American higher education at a crossroads. This book is the roadmap. COVID-19 triggered an existential crisis for American higher education. Faced with few safe choices, most colleges and universities switched to remote learning during the 2020 spring semester. The future, however, provides more choices about how institutions can fulfill their mission of teaching and research. But how do we begin to make decisions in an uncertain and shifting environment? In this concise guide, authors Edward J. Maloney and Joshua Kim lay out clear ways colleges and universities can move forward in safe and effective ways. The Low-Density University presents fifteen scenarios for how colleges and universities can address the current crisis from a fully online semester to others with students in residence and in the classroom. How can changing the calendar or shifting to hybrid models of blended classrooms impact teaching, learning, and the college experience? Could we emerge from this crisis with new models that are better and more adapted to today's world? The Low-Density University focuses primarily on teaching and learning, but student life (housing, athletics, health, etc.) are core to the college experience. Can we devise safe and effective ways to preserve the best of that experience? The lessons here extend beyond the classroom. Just as the pandemic will change American higher education, the choices we make now will change what college looks like for generations to come.

Author : Tristan McCowan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030195977

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Higher Education for and beyond the Sustainable Development Goals by Tristan McCowan Pdf

This book analyses the role of the university in working towards the Sustainable Development Goals. In contrast to the previous Millennium Development Goals, higher education is seen to have a crucial role in this new agenda. Yet how can the university fulfil these weighty expectations, and are the dominant trends in higher education supporting or undermining this vision? This book draws on the idea of the ‘developmental university’, a model characterised by its porous boundaries with society and commitment to teaching, research and community engagement in the public interest. The author examines case studies from Latin America, Africa and other regions to analyse how this model can be revived, countering recent trends of marketisation, status competition and unbundling. The book also considers alternatives to the developmental model drawing on indigenous knowledge systems, looking beyond the SDG framework to the creation of a new form of society. This timely volume will be of interest and value to those working in the field of sustainable development, and to students and scholars of comparative education, international development and higher education studies.

Author : Simon Marginson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780520292840

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The Dream Is Over by Simon Marginson Pdf

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Dream Is Over tells the extraordinary story of the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education in California, created by visionary University of California President Clark Kerr and his contemporaries. The Master Plan’s equality of opportunity policy brought college within reach of millions of American families for the first time and fashioned the world’s leading system of public research universities. The California idea became the leading model for higher education across the world and has had great influence in the rapid growth of universities in China and East Asia. Yet, remarkably, the political conditions supporting the California idea in California itself have evaporated. Universal access is faltering, public tuition is rising, the great research universities face new challenges, and educational participation in California, once the national leader, lags far behind. Can the social values embodied in Kerr’s vision be renewed?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004436558

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Responsibility of Higher Education Systems by Anonim Pdf

This book contributes to the understanding of the responsibilities of Higher Education in the evolving societal, political and economic landscape. It raises questions about its role in society, its responsibility towards students and staff, and its intended impact.