The Crisis Of The University

Author : Peter Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429823008

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Originally published in 1984, The Crisis of the University looks at the way in which changes to intellectual life relate to the development of the different institutions that make up higher education. It examines the evolution of the liberal university that flourished in the 19th and early 20th centuries into the modern university that has grown up since 1945. It also looks at the more detailed experience of British higher education, with separate chapters on what the Robbins expansion meant for the universities and why it was thought necessary to construct an alternative in the shape of the polytechnics. Looking to the future, the book argues first that the present structure of British higher education needs reform and speculates on the future intellectual and social demands that may be made of higher education.

Author : Richard Hil,Kristen Lyons,Fern Thompsett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000486025

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Transforming Universities in the Midst of Global Crisis by Richard Hil,Kristen Lyons,Fern Thompsett Pdf

This book calls into question the colonial and neoliberal university, presenting alternative models of higher education that can more effectively respond to today’s intersecting social, economic, environmental and political crises. The authors argue that universities should be driven by a different set of core values – one that promotes the common good over private or commercial interests, individualism and market fundamentalism. Presenting a broad range of educational initiatives from around the world that reflect life-affirming regenerative and relational practices, Indigenous intellectual sovereignty, and principles of social and ecological justice, the authors contend that pathways toward transforming higher education already exist within and without the university. This task, say the authors, is urgent and necessary if universities and other institutions are to hold relevance in a rapidly changing global environment. This book makes a unique contribution to critiques of the modern, neoliberal university by looking for alternatives within and beyond traditional institutions of higher education. In doing so, the authors dismantle the longstanding 'ivory tower' image of the university, instead resituating education within broader social and ecological communities. Transforming Universities in the Midst of Global Crisis is aimed at all those who have a direct or indirect interest and stake in universities, from the general reader to futurists, ecologists as well as students, academics, administrators, managers, policy makers and politicians.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : James E. Côté*1953-,Anton L. Allahar
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780802091826

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Ivory Tower Blues by James E. Côté*1953-,Anton L. Allahar Pdf

The present state of the university is a difficult issue to comprehend for anyone outside of the education system. If we are to believe common government reports that changes in policy are somehow making life easier for university graduates, we cannot help but believe that things are going right and are getting better in our universities. Ivory Tower Blues gives a decidedly different picture, examining this optimistic attitude as it impacts upon professors, students, and administrators in charge of the education system. Ivory Tower Blues is a frank account of the contemporary university, drawing on the authors' own research and personal experiences, as well as on input from students, colleagues, and administrators. James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar offer an insider's account of the university system, an accurate, alternative view to that overwhelmingly presented to the general public. Throughout, the authors argue that fewer and fewer students are experiencing their university education in ways expected by their parents and the public. The majority of students are hampered by insufficient preparation at the secondary school level, lack of personal motivation, and disillusionment. Contrary to popular opinion, there is no administrative or governmental procedure in place to maintain standards of education. Ivory Tower Blues is an in-depth look at the crisis facing Canadian and American universities, the factors that are precipitating the situation, and the long-term impact this crisis will have on the quality of higher education.

Author : Jeffrey R. Docking,Carman C. Curton
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781628951332

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Crisis in Higher Education by Jeffrey R. Docking,Carman C. Curton Pdf

In 2005 Adrian College was home to 840 enrolled students and had a tuition income of $8.54 million. By fall of 2011, enrollment had soared to 1,688, and tuition income had increased to $20.45 million. For the first time in years, the small liberal arts college was financially viable. Adrian College experienced this remarkable growth during the worst American economy in seventy years and in a state ravaged by the decline of the big three auto companies. How, exactly, did this turnaround happen? Crisis in Higher Education: A Plan to Save Small Liberal Arts Colleges in America was written to facilitate replication and generalization of Adrian College’s tremendous enrollment growth and retention success since 2005. This book directly addresses the economic competitiveness of small four-year institutions of higher education and presents an evidence-based solution to the enrollment and economic crises faced by many small liberal arts colleges throughout the country.

Author : Tom Slater
Publisher : Springer
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137587862

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Unsafe Space by Tom Slater Pdf

The academy is in crisis. Students call for speakers to be banned, books to be slapped with trigger warnings and university to be a Safe Space, free of offensive words or upsetting ideas. But as tempting as it is to write off intolerant students as a generational blip, or a science experiment gone wrong, they’ve been getting their ideas from somewhere. Bringing together leading journalists, academics and agitators from the US and UK, Unsafe Space is a wake-up call. From the war on lad culture to the clampdown on climate sceptics, we need to resist all attempts to curtail free speech on campus. But society also needs to take a long, hard look at itself. Our inability to stick up for our founding, liberal values, to insist that the free exchange of ideas should always be a risky business, has eroded free speech from within.

Author : Marcelo Suárez-Orozco,Carola Suárez-Orozco
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780231555494

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Education by Marcelo Suárez-Orozco,Carola Suárez-Orozco Pdf

In an age of catastrophes—unchecked climate change, extreme poverty, forced migrations, war, and terror, all compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic—how can schooling be reengineered and education reimagined? This book calls for a new global approach to education that responds to these overlapping crises in order to enrich and enhance the lives of children everywhere. Marcelo Suárez-Orozco and Carola Suárez-Orozco convene scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplines—including anthropology, neuroscience, demography, psychology, child development, sociology, and economics—who offer incisive essays on the global state of education. Contributors consider how educational policy and practice can foster social inclusion and improve outcomes for all children. They emphasize the centrality of education to social and environmental justice, as well as the philosophical foundations of education and its centrality to human flourishing, personal dignity, and sustainable development. Chapters examine topics such as the neuroscience of education; the uses of technology to engage children who are not reached by traditional schooling; education for climate change; the education of immigrants, refugees, and the forcibly displaced; and how to address and mitigate the effects of inequality and xenophobia in the classroom. Global and interdisciplinary, Education speaks directly to urgent contemporary challenges. Contributors include Stefania Giannini, the director of education for UNESCO; development economist Jeffrey Sachs; cognitive psychologist Howard Gardner; Carla Rinaldi, president of the Reggio Children Foundation; and academics from leading global universities. The book features a foreword by Pope Francis.

Author : Mark C. Taylor
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780307594600

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Crisis on Campus by Mark C. Taylor Pdf

A provocative look at the troubled present state of American higher education and a passionately argued and learned manifesto for its future. In Crisis on Campus, Mark C. Taylor—chair of the Department of Religion at Columbia University and a former professor at Williams College—expands on and refines the ideas presented in his widely read and hugely controversial 2009 New York Times op-ed. His suggestions for the ivory tower are both thought-provoking and rigorous: End tenure. Restructure departments to encourage greater cooperation among existing disciplines. Emphasize teaching rather than increasingly rarefied research. And bring that teaching to new domains, using emergent online networks to connect students worldwide. As a nation, he argues, we fail to make such necessary and sweeping changes at our peril. Taylor shows us the already-rampant consequences of decades of organizational neglect. We see promising graduate students in a distinctly unpromising job market, relegated—if they’re lucky—to positions that take little advantage of their training and talent. We see recent undergraduates with massive burdens of debt, and anxious parents anticipating the inflated tuitions we will see in ten or twenty years. We also see students at all levels chafing under the restrictions of traditional higher education, from the structures of assignments to limits on courses of study. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Accommodating the students of today and anticipating those of tomorrow, attuned to schools’ financial woes and the skyrocketing cost of education, Taylor imagines a new system—one as improvisational, as responsive to new technologies and as innovative as are the young members of the iPod and Facebook generation. In Crisis on Campus, we have an iconoclastic, necessary catalyst for a national debate long overdue.

Author : James Cote,Anton L. Allahar
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781442691377

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Ivory Tower Blues by James Cote,Anton L. Allahar Pdf

The present state of the university is a difficult issue to comprehend for anyone outside of the education system. If we are to believe common government reports that changes in policy are somehow making life easier for university graduates, we cannot help but believe that things are going right and are getting better in our universities. Ivory Tower Blues gives a decidedly different picture, examining this optimistic attitude as it impacts upon professors, students, and administrators in charge of the education system. Ivory Tower Blues is a frank account of the contemporary university, drawing on the authors’ own research and personal experiences, as well as on input from students, colleagues, and administrators. James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar offer an insider’s account of the university system, an accurate, alternative view to that overwhelmingly presented to the general public. Throughout, the authors argue that fewer and fewer students are experiencing their university education in ways expected by their parents and the public. The majority of students are hampered by insufficient preparation at the secondary school level, lack of personal motivation, and disillusionment. Contrary to popular opinion, there is no administrative or governmental procedure in place to maintain standards of education. Ivory Tower Blues is an in-depth look at the crisis facing Canadian and American universities, the factors that are precipitating the situation, and the long-term impact this crisis will have on the quality of higher education.

Author : Ralph A Gigliotti
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781978801820

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Crisis Leadership in Higher Education by Ralph A Gigliotti Pdf

There was a time when crises on college and university campuses were relatively rare and episodic. Much has changed, and it has changed quite rapidly. Drawing upon original research, Crisis Leadership in Higher Education presents a theory-informed framework for academic and administrative leaders who must navigate the institutional and environmental crises that are most germane to institutions of higher education.

Author : Peter Scott
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781447363293

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Retreat Or Resolution? by Peter Scott Pdf

Peter Scott examines the development of mass higher education and calls for robust action to secure fair access at all levels and changes in the governance and management at both system and institutional levels to ensure more democratic accountability.

Author : Sir Walter Hamilton Moberly,Walter Hamilton Moberly
Publisher : London, SCM P
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : UOM:39015013095909

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The Crisis in the University by Sir Walter Hamilton Moberly,Walter Hamilton Moberly Pdf

Author : Frank, Jefferson,Gowar, Norman
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781529202267

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English universities in crisis by Frank, Jefferson,Gowar, Norman Pdf

Recent policies have replaced direct government funding for teaching with fees paid by students. As well as saddling graduates with enormous debt, satisfaction rates are low, a high proportion of graduates are in non-graduate jobs, and public debt from unpaid loans is rocketing. This timely and challenging analysis combines theoretical and data analysis and insights gained from running a university, to give robust new policy proposals: lower fees; reintroduce maintenance awards; impose student number caps; maintain taxpayer funding; cancel the TEF; re-build the external examiner system; restructure the contingent-repayment loan scheme; and establish different roles for different types of institutions, to encourage excellence and ultimately benefit society.

Author : Institute for Research on Public Policy
Publisher : Institute for Research on Public Policy = Institut de recherches politiques
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Education
ISBN : UCAL:B4964705

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Universities in Crisis by Institute for Research on Public Policy Pdf

Author : David Jay Bercuson,Robert Bothwell,J. L. Granatstein
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : 0679309632

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Petrified Campus by David Jay Bercuson,Robert Bothwell,J. L. Granatstein Pdf

In 1984, a book called The Great Brain Robbery: Canada's Universities on the Road to Ruin became a controversial bestseller and caused a media uproar. Canada has undergone drastic changes since then. The Great Brain Robbery's authors, renowned historians David Bercuson, Robert Bothwell, and J.L. Granatstein, felt compelled to re-examine Canada's university system for the nineties. What they found there did not please them, and the impact it will have on all Canadians could be disastrous.