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Focusing on crucial issues in higher education, this book challenges readers to go beyond taken-for-granted assumptions about America’s colleges and universities and instead critically examine important questions facing them in today’s troubled world. Each chapter presents divergent perspectives, that is, "pro" and "con" views, in the hope of stimulating reasoned dialogue among students, faculty, administrators, and the public at large. Readers will explore how internal factors in the academic community often interact with external social, economic, and political influences to produce conflictual results. They will see that academe is hardly value-neutral and inevitably political. This book urges them to transcend strident political persuasion and instead engage in the careful analysis needed to make colleges better.
The text provides in-depth appraisal of key topics of controversy: the purposes of higher education, liberal education, academic freedom, political correctness, tenure, shared governance, faculty workload, admissions tests, student learning, Greek life, the worth of college, equity and social justice, athletics, student entitlement, technology and distance instruction, and college amenities. The book will appeal to students, faculty, staff, and all those interested in the future of higher education. It is especially useful for courses in contemporary issues in higher education, foundations of higher education, higher education and society, college student development, and the organization and administration of higher education.
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Joseph L. DeVitis is a prolific scholar and public intellectual in social foundations of education and higher education. Two of his books have earned Choice Awards from the American Library Association and four others have won Critics Choice Awards from the American Educational Studies Association.
Pietro A. Sasso is Assistant Professor of College Student Personnel at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Co-editor of Today’s College Students and Higher Education and Society, his research focuses on identity construction of traditional undergraduate students and the lived experiences of college subcultures.
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Originalbroschur. Condition: Sehr gut. XVII, 523 S. Ein tadelloses Exemplar. - Focusing on crucial issues in higher education, this book challenges readers to go beyond taken-for-granted assumptions about America's colleges and universities and instead critically examine important questions facing them in today's troubled world. Each chapter presents divergent perspectives, that is, "pro" and "con" views, in the hope of stimulating reasoned dialogue among students, faculty, administrators, and the public at large. Readers will explore how internal factors in the academic community often interact with external social, economic, and political influences to produce conflictual results. They will see that academe is hardly value-neutral and inevitably political. This book urges them to transcend strident political persuasion and instead engage in the careful analysis needed to make colleges better. The text provides in-depth appraisal of key topics of controversy: the purposes of higher education, liberal education, academic freedom, political correctness, tenure, shared governance, faculty workload, admissions tests, student learning, Greek life, the worth of college, equity and social justice, athletics, student entitlement, technology and distance instruction, and college amenities. The book will appeal to students, faculty, staff, and all those interested in the future of higher education. It is especially useful for courses in contemporary issues in higher education, foundations of higher education, higher education and society, college student development, and the organization and administration of higher education. - Contents: What Is College for ?: JOHANN N. NEEM -- Modernizing College Purposes to Save a Troubled World PATRICIA A. MCGUIRE: The Urgent Heed for Liberal Education in Today's Troubled World: BRUCE W. HAUPTLI -- Civic Engagement and Higher Learning: RICHARD GUARASCI -- "Flipping" the Tenure Debate and the Continuing Need to Protect Academic Freedom: NEAL H. HUTCHENS AND FRANK FERNANDEZ -- What Is Academic Freedom for?: ASHLEY THORNE -- The Contingency of Tenure: DAVID SHINER -- Why Tenure Needs Protection in These Troubled Times: PHILO A. HUTCHESON -- Free Expression at Public Colleges and Universities: Why Students Should Care About It and Why Campus Officials Should Make Sure It Is Protected: DENNIS E. GREGORY -- Free Expression and Political Correctness: Contextualizing the Controversies and Finding a Way Forward: R. SCOTT MATTINGLY, J. BENNETT DURHAM, AND MATTHEW R. SHUPP -- Tokenizing Social Justice in Higher Education: CRISTOBAL SALINAS JR. AND VALERIE A. GUERRERO -- Creating Inclusive Classrooms as an Imperative for Historically Underrepresented Groups in Higher Education: MICHAEL SEAN FUNK -- It Is a Balancing Act: Faculty Workload: ISIS N. WALTON AND NICOLLE PARSONS-POLLARD -- Faculty Work Life: Beyond the Tipping Point: SEAN ROBINSON -- Faculty Governance as a Thorny Problem: MICHAEL T. MILLER AND EVERRETT A. SMITH -- The Erosion of Faculty Governance: DILYS SCHOORMAN -- Limited by Design? A Critical Sociohistorical Analysis of Postsecondary Learning Outcomes: EZEKIEL KIMBALL, JUAN MANUEL RUIZ-HAU, AND FERMIN VALLE -- Are College Students Learning More or Less Than in the Past?: SERGIO OSSORIO AND KIMBERLY A. KLINE -- Instructional Technology as Revolutionary Savior of Higher Education Classrooms: An Analysis of Scope, Ethics, and Virtues DAVID S. KNOWLTON -- Will Technology and Distance Instruction Save Higher Education?: PAUL GORDON BROWN -- The Importance of Standardized Tests in College Admissions: MARTIN C. YU AND NATHAN R. KUNCEL -- Why Standardized Testing Is Not Essential in College Admissions: AARON W. HUGHEY -- Is Higher Education Worth the Cost?: MONICA GALLOWAY BURKE, COLIN CANNONIER, AND AARON W. HUGHEY -- Is Higher Education Worth the Cost? It Depends: LINDSEY M. BURKE -- The College Arms Race: How It Is Destroying Higher Education in the United States: MATTHEW VARGA AND SCOTT L. LINGRELL -- The Need for College Amenities and. Seller Inventory # 1146655
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