Remaking College : The Changing Ecology of Higher Education.
Title:
Remaking College : The Changing Ecology of Higher Education.
Author:
Stevens, Mitchell.
ISBN:
9780804793551
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (336 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Changing Ecology of U.S. Higher Education / Mitchell L. Stevens -- Part I: Understanding the Changing Ecology -- 1. Higher Education in America: Multiple Field Perspectives / W. Richard Scott -- 2. DIY U: Higher Education Goes Hybrid / Anya Kamenetz -- 3. Boom, Regulate, Cleanse, Repeat: For-Profit Colleges' Slow but Inevitable Drive Toward Acceptability / Paul Fain and Doug Lederman -- 4. The Classification of Organizational Forms: Theory and Application to the Field of Higher Education / Martin Ruef and Manish Nag -- Part II: College and the Life Course -- 5. The New Landscape of Early Adulthood: Implications for Broad-Access Higher Education / Richard A. Settersten, Jr. -- 6. The "Traditional" College Student: A Smaller and Smaller Minority and Its Implications for Diversity and Access Institutions / Regina Deil-Amen -- Part III: Assessment and Governance in the Changing Ecology -- 7. Measuring College Performance / Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa -- 8. Explaining Policy Change in K-12 and Higher Education / William R. Doyle and Michael W. Kirst -- Part IV: A New Research Agenda -- 9. Understanding Human Resources in Broad-Access Higher Education / Susanna Loeb, Agustina Paglayan, and Eric Taylor -- 10. Improving Collegiate Outcomes at Broad-Access Institutions: Lessons for Research and Practice / Michal Kurlaender, Jessica S. Howell, and Jacob Jackson -- 11. A Research Framework for U.S. Higher Education / Daniel Klasik, Kristopher Proctor, and Rachel Baker -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
Between 1945 and 1990 the United States built the largest and most productive higher education system in world history. Over the last two decades, however, dramatic budget cuts to public academic services and skyrocketing tuition have made college completion more difficult for many. Nevertheless, the democratic promise of education and the global competition for educated workers mean ever growing demand. Remaking College considers this changing context, arguing that a growing accountability revolution, the push for greater efficiency and productivity, and the explosion of online learning are changing the character of higher education. Writing from a range of disciplines and professional backgrounds, the contributors each bring a unique perspective to the fate and future of U.S. higher education. By directing their focus to schools doing the lion's share of undergraduate instruction-community colleges, comprehensive public universities, and for-profit institutions-they imagine a future unencumbered by dominant notions of "traditional" students, linear models of achievement, and college as a four-year residential experience. The result is a collection rich with new tools for helping people make more informed decisions about college-for themselves, for their children, and for American society as a whole.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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