Author : James Engell
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 27,50 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780813923314
The new status of money -- Prestige, money, and the ends of higher education -- Learning for dollars -- Humanities and the market-model university -- The destruction of reading -- Means and ends, signs and symbols -- Packaging ethics -- Leading the self into the world -- Science, art, and democracy : a partnership -- The higher utility
Author : Nancy Folbre
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 18,11 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 1595580654
Whilst working as Chairperson in a university department of Economics, celebrated feminist Nancy Folbre saw first-hand how cut backs severely affected the quality of education and services available to students. In an incisive study, she explains how public education fits into the economy at large. As America faces a transition in administration, and a change in policies on public spending, this well-informed call to action provides a much needed perspective on public education.
Author : Glenn Reynolds
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 1594037108
Predicts that the American education system is going to experience a bubble burst, just as the housing market did, and offers advice and solutions for parents, educators and taxpayers on alternatives to the failing K-12 public school system. 20,000 first printing.
Author : James A. Dator
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,9 MB
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 135150925X
The accelerating technological transformation in learn- ing has necessitated an ability to search and differentiate among the one billion web pages, libraries, databases, books, newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, and opinion columns available online. This volume focuses on the normative challenges that the current technological transformation presents to all professionals engaged in higher education. Part I concentrates on the current social and technological trends. David Snyder presents an outline of technologies that have made open knowledge systems possible. Majid Tehranian argues that the new technological environment has made learning to seek out information more possible than ever before. Robert Fuller calls for an egalitarian rather than hierarchical approach to communication systems. Harlan Cleveland proposes integrative learning, broad thinking, and globally aware citizenship through "education for wisdom." Part II focuses on problems of governance and finance in the new technological environment. John Hinchcliff takes up the problem of values and argues for the maintenance of traditional altruistic rather than Promethean goals. Karou Yamaguchi comes to the problem of the futures with the tools of system dynamics. William Bergquist calls for a reorganization of higher education to meet the needs for creation, transfer, and inculcation of knowledge and skills. Hamid Shirvani calls for the core values of transparency, integrity, open communication, and dignitarian approach as the guideposts in educational leadership. Walter Truett Anderson concludes by attempting to bring the complex technological, social, economic, and political variables into a holistic approach for the management of higher education. In 2005, at the Universities of the Future Conference, participants were asked to envision the future of higher education. Part III, presents their visions.
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Page : 2 pages
File Size : 36,88 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Savings bonds
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Author : Charles Muscatine
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 29,25 MB
Release : 2009-08-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 081392832X
Since his early days at the University of California, Berkeley, when he was fired for refusing to sign a loyalty oath during the Red Scare, Charles Muscatine has been a dedicated teacher and higher education reformer. Upon his reinstatement at Berkeley, he founded "Strawberry Creek College," a six-year experiment using full professors and small classes to teach lower-division students. Drawing on this belief in undergraduate teaching, Muscatine’s new book now offers a radical new design for American college education. Muscatine begins with the observation that the mediocre undergraduate curriculum offered by most colleges and universities today is based on outdated ideas of what should be taught and what constitutes good teaching. Although Muscatine is himself a well-established research scholar, he contends that the publish-or-perish "research religion" of college and university faculties has seriously damaged undergraduate education. He offers a clear distinction between publishable research and the scholarship necessary for good teaching. Furthermore, he recommends major changes in the education of professors, including reconsidering both the requirement of the book-length dissertation and the current organization of graduate departments. Fixing College Education predicts new roles for students and faculty, redefines educational breadth and depth, and calls for deeper assessment of learning and teaching. Muscatine highlights the outstanding colleges and universities, including Harvard, Boston University’s University Professor’s Program, Evergreen State College, and Fairhaven College at Western Washington University, that have already remade their curricula successfully or adopted features like the ones he proposes. Muscatine argues that the new curriculum is better able than the old to produce good scholars and good citizens for the twenty-first century.
Author : Paul Gibbs
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 36,90 MB
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 3319032542
With higher education around the world in a period of extreme flux, this volume explores its underlying philosophy, a core element of the ongoing debate. Offering a diverse range of perspectives from an international selection of renowned scholars of higher education, the book is full of imaginative insights that add up to a substantive contribution to the discussion. As universities attempt to adapt to a new environment characterized by stiff international competition, networked remote learning, burgeoning student numbers and comparative performance assessment, how we conceptualize the purpose and ethos of our higher learning institutions is more important than ever. This publication features a multitude of distinctive approaches that illuminate potential solutions to the complex issues universities must grapple with in these uncertain times. Rather than espousing a singular philosophical approach, the editors have assembled views from across the spectrum and from differing national contexts, representing a multidisciplinary response to the situation. This collection of papers aims thus to inspire fresh developments in the way we think about the complexities of and options available to, higher education.
Author : Profits for a Cause
Publisher : Profits for a Cause, LLC
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,9 MB
Release : 2022-08-27
Category : Study Aids
ISBN :
The College Savings Resource Guide is a comprehensive guide unlike any other. Designed to save the reader money from Pre-K to Senior Citizen. What sets this book apart from others is that we have done the research for you and provide you hyperlink access to the resources that you would otherwise have to search. While other authors may state, "Check Promise programs to determine which is most suited to your needs," we instead provide you instant hyperlink access to a database of all the Promise Programs nationwide. We have done that with all the resources on all the different subject areas. Access to organizations that offer free tutoring at any age; free access to Microsoft Office 365 Education for those with valid school email addresses; tuition-free colleges; companies that provide free education benefits (some even for part-time employees). Grants, scholarships, loans, and student loan forgiveness programs. Methods to receive in-state rates for out-of-state Universities. Ways to reduce student housing and food expenses. Unique mechanisms such as scholarships for children as young as 5-year of age; proprietary lists of organizations that will assist you in completing the FAFSA; access to databases of hospitals providing tuition assistance for medical students in exchange for a work commitment; and resources to assist in obtaining a sports scholarship are just a few of topics covered. Do yourself a favor. Take a moment and read through the Introduction and the Foreword. With over 600 hyperlinks to information designed to save you money, there is something in this book for everyone. By expanding out the Table of Contents which are several pages long, you will see that we have tried to cover every expense and challenge that students encounter along the way. We know, because this book was developed from interviews, surveys, and questionnaires, of over 5000 students, teachers, parents, academic advisors, financial aid representatives, and school counselors. Written from the perspective of "If only I knew then, what I know now", this book illustrates successes and mistakes that students before you have made, so that you can learn from their experiences and save.
Author : Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz
Publisher : Crown Currency
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 11,1 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0804137374
Here at last are the hard-to-find answers to the dizzying array of financial questions plaguing those who are age fifty and older. The financial world is more complex than ever, and people are struggling to make sense of it all. If you’re like most people moving into the phase of life where protecting—as well as growing-- assets is paramount, you’re faced with a number of financial puzzles. Maybe you’re struggling to get your kids through college without drawing down your life’s savings. Perhaps you sense your nest egg is at risk and want to move into safer investments. Maybe you’re contemplating downsizing to a smaller home, but aren’t sure of the financial implications. Possibly, medical expenses have become a bigger drain than you expected and you need help assessing options. Perhaps you’ll shortly be eligible for social security but want to optimize when and how to take it. Whatever your specific financial issue, one thing is certain—your range of choices is vast. As the financial world becomes increasingly complex, what you need is deeply researched advice from professionals whose credentials are impeccable and who prize clarity and straightforwardness over financial mumbo-jumbo. Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz and the Schwab team have been helping clients tackle their toughest money issues for decades. Through Carrie’s popular “Ask Carrie” columns, her leadership of the Charles Schwab Foundation, and her work across party lines through two White House administrations and with the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability, she has become one of America’s most trusted sources for financial advice. Here, Carrie will not only answer all the questions that keep you up at night, she’ll provide answers to many questions you haven’t considered but should.
Author : Jon McGee
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 11,65 MB
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1421418207
"Higher education is in the midst of an extraordinary moment of demographic, economic, and cultural transition that has significant implications for how colleges and universities understand their mission, their market, and their management. This book is aimed at creating a practical understanding of key forces changing higher education, but it goes further. It describes those trends, discusses the real life impact of those trends on campuses, and then lays out concrete steps required to address them. Taking a page from George Keller's classic Academic Strategy, management consultant and college administrator Jon McGee uses these economic and demographic trends to inform his strategic approach to managing schools"--
