Reinventing Higher Education

Author : Ben Wildavsky,Andrew P. Kelly,Kevin Carey
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781612504278

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The inspiration for this timely book is the pressing need for fresh ideas and innovations in U.S. higher education. At the heart of the volume is the realization that higher education must evolve in fundamental ways if it is to respond to changing professional, economic, and technological circumstances, and if it is to successfully reach and prepare a vast population of students—traditional and nontraditional alike—for success in the coming decades. This collection of provocative articles by leading scholars, writers, innovators, and university administrators examines the current higher education environment and its chronic resistance to change; the rise of for-profit universities; the potential future role of community colleges in a significantly revised higher education realm; and the emergence of online learning as a means to reshape teaching and learning and to reach new consumers of higher education. Combining trenchant critiques of current conditions with thought-provoking analyses of possible reforms and new directions, Reinventing Higher Education is an ambitious exploration of possible future directions for revitalized American colleges and universities.

Author : Ben Wildavsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 1934742872

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Examines some of the dilemmas facing higher education today, and explores a number of innovations that are worthy of special attention.

Author : Weber L. (ed),Duderstadt J. J. (ed)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015060093427

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Reinventing the Research University by Weber L. (ed),Duderstadt J. J. (ed) Pdf

The fourth Glion Colloquium, which was held in Glion above Montreux, Switzerland, in June 2003, drew together active university leaders (presidents, rectors, vice-chancellors), along with guests from industry with close ties to academe, to compare perspectives on the future of the research university in America and Europe, as reflected in its title, 'Reinventing the Research University'. Although there was considerable discussion about whether it would be more accurate to use other verbs such as 'reforming', 'renewing' or 'refocusing', there was general agreement that change would characterize the future of the research university, driven by powerful social, economic and technological forces driving change in our world. The papers contained in this book reflect both the consensus and differences in the perspectives of the participants on these issues. In Part I, papers set the stage by considering the forces that are likely to change the nature of the research university. In Part II, the authors discuss the changing nature of education and scholarship. Part III then continues with papers on the changing nature of the interaction between the research university and broader society. In Part IV, the authors discuss the challenges of financing and governing the contemporary research university. In the concluding chapter the editors endeavour to pull together these discussions to develop more specific suggestions concerning the issues and strategies that universities should consider as they approach a period of rapid change. [Publisher, ed].

Author : Fernando M. Reimers,Francisco J. Marmolejo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
ISBN : 9783030821593

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University and School Collaborations During a Pandemic by Fernando M. Reimers,Francisco J. Marmolejo Pdf

Based on twenty case studies of universities worldwide, and on a survey administered to leaders in 101 universities, this open access book shows that, amidst the significant challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, universities found ways to engage with schools to support them in sustaining educational opportunity. In doing so, they generated considerable innovation, which reinforced the integration of the research and outreach functions of the university. The evidence suggests that universities are indeed open systems, in interaction with their environment, able to discover changes that can influence them and to change in response to those changes. They are also able, in the success of their efforts to mitigate the educational impact of the pandemic, to create better futures, as the result of the innovations they can generate. This challenges the view of universities as "ivory towers" being isolated from the surrounding environment and detached from local problems. As they reached out to schools, universities not only generated clear and valuable innovations to sustain educational opportunity and to improve it, this process also contributed to transform internal university processes in ways that enhanced their own ability to deliver on the third mission of outreach

Author : Leo Groarke
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781770705616

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Reinventing Brantford by Leo Groarke Pdf

Short-listed for the 2012 Speaker’s Award One hundred years ago, the City of Brantford advertised itself as the most important manufacturing centre in Canada. During the century that followed, its industrial economy boomed, faltered, and finally collapsed. By the end of the twentieth century, Brantford was known for unemployment, hard luck, and the infamy of having "the worst downtown in Canada." For twenty years the downtown was in steep decline. Significant attempts at urban revival had failed until Wilfrid Laurier University decided to locate a campus in the heart of Brantford’s crumbling city centre. Leo Groarke revisists the grandeur of the city’s past, explores the economic downfall, and tells the story of the arrival of the university, its early struggles, its commitment to historic restoration, and its ultimate success as a catalyst for urban renewal. The compelling story he recounts will engage anyone interested in the plight of the North-American city core and the role that universities and colleges can play in re-establishing downtowns as vibrant centres of historical and contemporary importance.

Author : Sandra L. Johnson,Sean C. Rush
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Universities and colleges
ISBN : OCLC:1319577384

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Reinventing the University by Sandra L. Johnson,Sean C. Rush Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Faculty
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015041705768

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The Proceedings of International Conference Reinventing Higher Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Melvyn L. Fein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351494403

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Redefining Higher Education by Melvyn L. Fein Pdf

Higher education is in trouble. Commentators of all stripes bemoan escalating costs and diminishing quality. Solutions have been offered from all quarters, but tend to be piecemeal and all too often ideological. In this tough-minded look at the history, current climate, and future of university education in the United States, Melvyn L. Fein re-examines the mission of higher education and outlines what institutions can do to better prepare students for an ever more complex techno-commercial society. Fein argues that students must have the opportunity to explore and discover what works for them, and that the most important tool for institutions of higher education is self-direction. Professors must be allowed to teach in their own ways, bringing their own experience into the classroom. Since university missions differ, both universities and professors need the freedom to make decisions independently. The imminent need is for a "democratic elite" consisting of self-directed leaders who possess technical and social expertise, as well as personal motivation. The tools for change are appropriate curricula, communities of learners, and a genuine marketplace of ideas. While there is no magic bullet, Fein contends that we can and should build on the achievements of the past so as to evolve more responsive educational institutions-those that promote merit, responsibility, and universalism.

Author : Bryan Penprase,Noah Pickus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780691231495

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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 : R. Michael M'Gonigle,Justine Starke
Publisher : Gabriola, BC : New Society Publishers
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Campus planning
ISBN : UOM:39015064907085

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Planet U by R. Michael M'Gonigle,Justine Starke Pdf

Planet U places the university at the forefront of the sustainability movement. Questioning the university's ability to equip society to deal with today's serious challenges such as economic growth, democratic citizenship and planetary survival, it calls for a new social movement to take a lead in reforming the university. The book reviews the university's 900-year history from medieval religious philosopher, to Renaissance nation-builder, to its modern function as training grounds for the world's managerial class and the world's largest industry. It examines diverse campus initiatives across North America and Europe and their traditional concerns of green buildings, renewable energy and transportation demand management. But it also demonstrates the promise for social and ecological progress open to the "planetary university" once the university takes its place seriously and discovers its new mission: to create diverse models of local and global innovation centered around tough new questions about what universities -- and their societies -- can achieve: * How might the university help move us to a post-automobile, energy-saving society? * How might universities help refashion the city to be sustainable? * How might universities be governed for sustainability? Lively, engaging and perfectly timed for the UN Decade for Sustainability in Education launched in 2005, Planet U will have wide appeal. Michael M'Gonigle, Professor and Eco-Research Chair of Environmental Law and Policy at the University of Victoria, is a co-founder of Greenpeace International and has published widely on sustainability issues. Justine Starke is a Research Associate in the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance at the University of Victoria.

Author : Jan D. Sinnott,Lynn Johnson
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015037790014

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Reinventing the University by Jan D. Sinnott,Lynn Johnson Pdf

This book offers a radically new vision of how the university might become a special sort of workplace/community of thinkers and doers, working together to understand and solve real human problems, in a competitive global market. It is a practical vision created by experienced authors. Can the finest minds, traditionally associated with universities, devote themselves to the long-term interests of the planet and our descendants? What would happen if they could join together, worldwide, to find solutions to complex human problems? What will happen to the university and to us if they do not?

Author : Barbara Leigh Smith,John McCann
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-15
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015043199911

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Reinventing Ourselves by Barbara Leigh Smith,John McCann Pdf

Reinventing Ourselves examines the experiences and lessons from over 20 different institutions pioneering new approaches for more effective teaching and learning. Many of the colleges included in this volume began as both educational and social experiments, representing new ways of thinking about educational goals, curricular organization, institutional governance, and faculty roles and rewards. With new calls for both rethinking our approaches to teaching and learning and for reviewing the traditional boundaries within institutions and between disciplines, Reinventing Ourselves offers a rich store of ideas from which to draw.

Author : Alice W. Brown,Sandra L. Ballard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781118275368

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Changing Course: Reinventing Colleges, Avoiding Closure by Alice W. Brown,Sandra L. Ballard Pdf

Institutions of higher education are constantly facing economic challenges to their survival. Nowhere are the challenges greater than in small private colleges and universities across America. None of these colleges can assume that its stability is assured in perpetuity. No thriving college is immune from unforeseen disaster, just as no struggling college is irreversibly destined for closure. This issue presents stories of colleges in crisis and considers what makes the difference between a college that closes and one that nearly closes but manages to remain open. It offers a range of revealing, hard-won experiences of college presidents who led their campuses in times of crises. Some colleges found no way out, and their stories offer lessons that are just as valuable as the stories of colleges that reinvented themselves and survived. This is the 156th volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series New Directions for Higher Education. Addressed to higher education decision makers on all kinds of campuses, it provides timely information and authoritative advice about major issues and administrative problems confronting every institution.

Author : Lucy Montgomery,John Hartley,Cameron Neylon,Malcolm Gillies,Eve Gray
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780262365161

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Open Knowledge Institutions by Lucy Montgomery,John Hartley,Cameron Neylon,Malcolm Gillies,Eve Gray Pdf

The future of the university as an open knowledge institution that institutionalizes diversity and contributes to a common resource of knowledge: a manifesto. In this book, a diverse group of authors—including open access pioneers, science communicators, scholars, researchers, and university administrators—offer a bold proposition: universities should become open knowledge institutions, acting with principles of openness at their center and working across boundaries and with broad communities to generate shared knowledge resources for the benefit of humanity. Calling on universities to adopt transparent protocols for the creation, use, and governance of these resources, the authors draw on cutting-edge theoretical work, offer real-world case studies, and outline ways to assess universities’ attempts to achieve openness. Digital technologies have already brought about dramatic changes in knowledge format and accessibility. The book describes further shifts that open knowledge institutions must make as they move away from closed processes for verifying expert knowledge and toward careful, mediated approaches to sharing it with wider publics. It examines these changes in terms of diversity, coordination, and communication; discusses policy principles that lay out paths for universities to become fully fledged open knowledge institutions; and suggests ways that openness can be introduced into existing rankings and metrics. Case studies—including Wikipedia, the Library Publishing Coalition, Creative Commons, and Open and Library Access—illustrate key processes.

Author : Paul Hill,Lawrence C. Pierce,James W. Guthrie
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226336534

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Reinventing Public Education by Paul Hill,Lawrence C. Pierce,James W. Guthrie Pdf

A heated debate is raging over our nation’s public schools and how they should be reformed, with proposals ranging from imposing national standards to replacing public education altogether with a voucher system for private schools. Combining decades of experience in education, the authors propose an innovative approach to solving the problems of our school system and find a middle ground between these extremes. Reinventing Public Education shows how contracting would radically change the way we operate our schools, while keeping them public and accessible to all, and making them better able to meet standards of achievement and equity. Using public funds, local school boards would select private providers to operate individual schools under formal contracts specifying the type and quality of instruction. In a hands-on, concrete fashion, the authors provide a thorough explanation of the pros and cons of school contracting and how it would work in practice. They show how contracting would free local school boards from operating schools so they can focus on improving educational policy; how it would allow parents to choose the best school for their children; and, finally, how it would ensure that schools are held accountable and academic standards are met. While retaining a strong public role in education, contracting enables schools to be more imaginative, adaptable, and suited to the needs of children and families. In presenting an alternative vision for America’s schools, Reinventing Public Education is too important to be ignored.