Author : Werner Zvi Hirsch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 10,16 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
In May 1998, the participants in the Glion Colloquium gathered in Switzerland to identify the major problems currently facing higher education in the United States and Western Europe, and to propose effective means for meeting those challenges. Challenges Facing Higher Education at the Millennium is a collection of papers written by the participants of this colloquium.
Author : Linda Sue Warner
Publisher : IAP
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,5 MB
Release : 2009-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1607529890
This volume of The David C. Anchin Research Center Series on Educational Policy in the 21st century: Opportunities, Challenges, and Solutions focuses on tribal colleges and universities. As a recent member of higher education community, tribal colleges and universities provide a unique perspective on higher education policy. Policies and structures rely increasingly on native culture and traditions and yet provide the framework for academic rigor, collaboration, and relevance. Tribal Colleges and Universities have played an integral role in the growing numbers of students who attain the bachelor’s degree. According to Ward (2002), these colleges and universities experienced a five-fold increase in student enrollment between 1982 and 1996. As it stands today, approximately 142,800 American Indians and Alaska Natives who are 25 and older hold a graduate or professional degree (Diverse, 2007), and Tribal Colleges and Universities have been integral to this graduate level attainment. With this edited volume, Dr. Linda Sue Warner and Dr. Gerald E. Gipp, and the invited scholarly contributors, have provided a comprehensive explication of the phenomenal history of Tribal Colleges and Universities in the United States and the policy issues and concerns that these colleges and universities face.
Author : Johan Muller
Publisher : Pearson South Africa
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 11,99 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780636047754
An intellectual record of a riveting dialogue between the highly acclaimed Manuel Castells and South African scholars.
Author : Deborah C. Davis
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN :
This book serves as a guide for counselors who are working in higher education and can be used as a resource book for individuals involved in counselor preparation programs. It explores college counseling as a profession, examines the diverse characteristics of today's college students, and details the variety of roles and services provided by college counselors. The book is organized into four sections. Part 1, "The College Counseling Profession," provides an introduction to college counseling as a profession, including its history and current status, diverse institutional settings, and professional preparation. Part 2, "Counseling Today's College Students," presents an overview of the diverse characteristics of today's college students, with special attention to traditional and nontraditional learners, and minority and international students. Part 3, "Today's College Counselor and the Institution," explores the diverse roles and services provided by the counselors and makes recommendations regarding effective practices. Part 4, "College Counselors and the Future," looks at stories from day-to-day life of college counselors and examines ways counselors can maintain wellness amid the demanding environment. The book is designed to provide an overview of the holistic, developmentally-based profession of college counseling and does not duplicate related publications of other authors about specific topics, such as student affairs preparation, techniques for counseling special populations, or cybercounseling. Resources are included that will assist readers in further exploring their interests. (Contains 474 references and 8 appendixes.) (JDM)
Author : John H. Scanzoni
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 24,32 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780742545670
Universities As If Students Mattered is centered around the goal of coaching college students to become active, self-directed learners whose obligation to serve society is integral to their active learning. At the same time, the innovations in this book would focus the attention, energy, and considerable talents of professors, graduate students, and post-docs on some potential ways and means of addressing urgent social issues, contributing to a more thorough and comprehensive understanding of the social world.
Author : Henry A. Giroux
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 12,38 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780742510487
Prominent scholars in this book move boldly beyond critique to show how and why the critical functions of a democratically informed civic education (not merely professional training) must become the core of the university's mission. They show why higher education must address what it means to relate knowledge to public life, and social responsibility to the demands of critical citizenship. Moreover, they show why democratic forms of education and various elements of a critical pedagogy are vital not only to individual students, but also to our economy and our democratic institutions and future leadership. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Author : Armoni, Adi
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 31,63 MB
Release : 1999-07-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1930708556
Healthcare information systems are crucial to the effective and efficient delivery of healthcare. Healthcare Information Systems: Challenges of the New Millennium reports on the implementation of medical information systems.
Author : Luc Weber
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 35,99 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9287156794
The public responsibility for higher education and research is a cornerstone of the European university heritage. Yet, our societies are changing rapidly, and clinging to old solutions will not further the very values that these solutions were originally designed to protect. The claim on public attention and public funds is growing, but public funds are not, or at least not at the same rate. While public funding of higher education and research is still important, the concept of public responsibility must be understood much more widely. It must also be nuanced by looking more closely at different degrees and levels of public responsibility as well as at the instruments available for exercising such responsibility. The book, which builds on a Council of Europe conference, aims to explore what public responsibility means in the complex societies that have just crossed the threshold to the 21st century by examining both overall higher education policies and specific aspects of it such as higher education for a democratic culture, access to research results, financing, equal opportunities, the approach to regulation and new trends in higher education.
Author : Adrian Curaj
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 42,93 MB
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 3030563162
This open access book presents the major outcomes of the fourth edition of the Future of Higher Education – Bologna Process Researchers Conference (FOHE-BPRC 4) which was held in January 2020 and which has already established itself as a landmark in the European higher education environment. The conference is part of the official calendar of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) for events that promote and sustain the development of EHEA. The conference provides a unique forum for dialogue between researchers, experts and policy makers in the field of higher education, all of which is documented in this proceedings volume. The book focuses on the following five sub-themes: - Furthering the Internationalization of Higher Education: Particular - Challenges in the EHEA - Access and Success for Every Learner in Higher Education - Advancing Learning and Teaching in the EHEA: Innovation and Links With Research - The Future of the EHEA - Principles, Challenges and Ways Forward - Bologna Process in the Global Higher Education Arena. Going Digital? While acknowledging the efforts and achievements so far at EHEA level, the Paris Ministerial Communiqué highlights the need to intensify crossdisciplinary and cross-border cooperation. One of the ways to achieve this objective is to develop more efficient peer-learning activities, involving policymakers and other stakeholders from as many member states as possible for which this book provides a platform. It acknowledges the importance of a continued dialogue between researchers and decisionmakers and benefits from the experience already acquired, this way enabling the higher education community to bring its input into the 2020. European Higher Education Area (EHEA) priorities for 2020 onwards. European Higher Education Area: Challenges for a New Decade marks 21 years of Bologna Process and 10 years of EHEA and brings together an unique collection of contributions that not only reflect on all that has been achieved in these years, but more importantly, shape directions for the future. This book is published under an open access CC BY license.
Author : Matthew J. Schuelka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 21,23 MB
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9811016496
Bhutan is a country in the Himalayas with a relatively new education system and a unique governmental philosophy known as Gross National Happiness. This book explores the history, culture, challenges, and opportunities of schooling in Bhutan. It discusses topics including historical perspectives on Buddhist monastic education, the regional and international influence on educational development, traditional medical education, higher education, and the evolution of Bhutanese educational policy, to name but a few. It also investigates contemporary challenges to schooling in Bhutan such as adult education, inclusive education, early childhood education, rurality, and gender. Throughout the book, the developmental philosophy of Gross National Happiness is explored as a novel and culturally vital approach to education in Bhutan. The majority of the authors are prominent Bhutanese scholars and educational leaders, with select non-Bhutanese international scholars with strong links to Bhutan also contributing. This book is a valuable resource not only for those specifically interested in education in Bhutan, but for anyone with an interest in South Asian studies, general Asian studies, educational development, comparative education, Buddhist education, and the Gross National Happiness development philosophy.
