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The higher education scene in America : some observations /
This book discusses a number of issues that confront America's higher education scene today. Those issue embrace such problems as: (1) the missions(s) of our colleges and universities and the development of critical thinking and/or employability; (2) the role of for-profit academic institutions...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Maryland :
University Press of America,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Higher education in a free society -- Formal authority and diffusion of power -- The academic pecking order and unionization of the academic staff -- The budgetary challenge and fiscal responsibility -- The fundraising challenge -- Other aspects of fundraising -- Conflicts of interest and division I sports -- Service functions : a secondary source of threats to the academic mission -- The university president : the leader's job is critical. | |
| 520 | |a This book discusses a number of issues that confront America's higher education scene today. Those issue embrace such problems as: (1) the missions(s) of our colleges and universities and the development of critical thinking and/or employability; (2) the role of for-profit academic institutions; (3) the impact of online technology; (4) diffusion of power and achievement of consensus between administrators and faculty; (5) the importance of financial matters, embracing budgets, fundraising, and endowments; (6) the insidious problem of conflicts of interest; (7) the scandalous impact of big-time, big-money Division 1 sports on academe; (8) the growth of non-academic functions; and (9) the importance of leadership in consensual institutions and how leaders are chosen. | ||
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