wyszukanych pozycji: 8
Making Reform Work: The Case for Transforming American Higher Education
ISBN: 9780813545912 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Making Reform Work is a practical narrative of ideas that begins by describing who is saying what about American higher educationuwho's angry, who's disappointed, and why. Most of the pleas for changing American colleges and universities that originate outside the academy are lamentations on a small number of too often repeated themes. The critique from within the academy focuses on issues principally involving money and the power of the market to change colleges and universities. Sandwiched between these perspectives is a public that still has faith in an enterprise that it really...
Making Reform Work is a practical narrative of ideas that begins by describing who is saying what about American higher educationuwho's angry, ...
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145,18 zł |
Remaking the American University: Market-Smart and Mission-Centered
ISBN: 9780813536248 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. At one time, universities educated new generations and were a source of social change. Today, colleges and universities are less places of public purpose than agencies of personal advantage. Remaking the American University provides a penetrating analysis of the ways market forces have shaped and distorted the behaviors, purposes, and ultimately the missions of universities and colleges over the past half-century. The authors describe how a competitive preoccupation with published rankings and markets has spawned an admissions arms race that drains institutional resources and energies....
At one time, universities educated new generations and were a source of social change. Today, colleges and universities are less places of public purp...
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176,36 zł |
Checklist for Change: Making American Higher Education a Sustainable Enterprise
ISBN: 9780813561349 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Almost every day American higher education is making news with a list of problems that includes the incoherent nature of the curriculum, the resistance of the faculty to change, and the influential role of the federal government both through major investments in student aid and intrusive policies. Checklist for Change not only diagnoses these problems, but also provides constructive recommendations for practical change. Robert Zemsky details the complications that have impeded every credible reform intended to change American higher education. He demythologizes such initiatives as...
Almost every day American higher education is making news with a list of problems that includes the incoherent nature of the curriculum, the resistanc...
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160,80 zł |
The Market Imperative: Segmentation and Change in Higher Education
ISBN: 9781421424118 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Although there is no "one-size-fits-all" approach for reforming higher education, this clearly written book will productively advance understanding of the challenges colleges and universities face by providing a mapping of the configuration of the market for an undergraduate education.
Although there is no "one-size-fits-all" approach for reforming higher education, this clearly written book will productively advance understanding of...
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144,69 zł |
Communicate for a Change: Revitalizing Conversations for Higher Education
ISBN: 9781421441740 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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158,34 zł |
Making Sense of the College Curriculum: Faculty Stories of Change, Conflict, and Accommodation
ISBN: 9780813595023 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Contributors share personal, humorous, powerful, and poignant stories about their experiences in a life that is more a calling than a profession. Collectively, these accounts help to answer the question of why developing a coherent undergraduate curriculum is so vexing to colleges and universities.
Contributors share personal, humorous, powerful, and poignant stories about their experiences in a life that is more a calling than a profession. Coll...
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147,37 zł |
The College Stress Test: Tracking Institutional Futures Across a Crowded Market
ISBN: 9781421437033 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Those interested in and responsible for the fate of these institutions will find in this book a clearly defined set of risk indicators, a methodology for monitoring progress over time, and an evidence-based understanding of where they reside in the landscape of institutional risk.
Those interested in and responsible for the fate of these institutions will find in this book a clearly defined set of risk indicators, a methodology ...
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191,10 zł |
Making Sense of the College Curriculum: Faculty Stories of Change, Conflict, and Accommodation
ISBN: 9780813595030 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Readers of Making Sense of the College Curriculum expecting a traditional academic publication full of numeric and related data will likely be disappointed with this volume, which is based on stories rather than numbers. The contributors include over 185 faculty members from eleven colleges and universities, representing all sectors of higher education, who share personal, humorous, powerful, and poignant stories about their experiences in a life that is more a calling than a profession. Collectively, these accounts help to answer the question of why developing a coherent undergraduate...
Readers of Making Sense of the College Curriculum expecting a traditional academic publication full of numeric and related data will likely be disappo...
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82,94 zł |