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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Autores principales: | , |
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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.