Download or read book Readings in Higher Education in the United States written by Conference Board of the Associated Research Councils. Committee on International Exchange of Persons and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Readings in Public Education in the United States written by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The University in Ruins written by Bill Readings and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the roots of the modern American University in German philosophy and in the work of British thinkers such as Newman and Arnold, Bill Readings argues that the integrity of the modern University has been linked to the nation-state, which it has served by promoting and protecting the idea of a national culture. But now the nation-state is in decline, and national culture no longer needs to be either promoted or protected.
Download or read book Foundations of American Higher Education written by Association for the Study of Higher Education and published by Pearson Learning Solutions. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive introduction to the basics of American higher education presents 51 articles by some of today's most respected leaders in the field, in four parts. The readings chosen for this volume are intentionally introductory and are often descriptive, rather than issue oriented. They are designed to help the reader map out the territory of higher education, recognize the key concepts, identify some of the prominent experts who write about them, and explore some of the still unanswered questions. Part I: The Scope of Higher Education in American Society, introduces readers to the scope of higher education in American society and the world with readings with historical, philosophical and sociological perspectives. Part II: The Participants, considers the divers array of people that make up today's student body, and those who make up the faculty that conduct research, develop curriculum and deliver much of the intellectual content of a college education. Part III: The Conduct of Education and Research, contains readings that look at the modes by which the activities of the faculty and students affairs staff are carried out. Part IV: The Management of the College or University, explores the support system that allows the faculty and student affairs personnel to conduct their own work and considers the nature of the system components outside of the institutions that effect internal policy.
Download or read book Two Cheers for Higher Education written by Steven Brint and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the years 1980-2015, Brint details the trajectory of American universities, which was influenced by evolving standards of disciplinary professionalism, market-driven partnerships, and the goal of social inclusion.
Download or read book The Shaping of American Higher Education written by Carrie B. Kisker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated analysis of the forces shaping contemporary higher education in America Combining historical perspective with in-depth coverage of current events, The Shaping of American Higher Education offers an authoritative account of the past, present, and future of higher education in the United States. Readers will gain a thorough understanding of trends in student access and equity, faculty professionalization, curricular expansion, institutional growth, college administration and governance, public and private funding, outcomes, and accountability. Much has happened in American higher education since the 2nd edition of this text was published in 2009. This streamlined new edition discusses contemporary colleges and universities within a broader societal context characterized by political polarization, social fragmentation, and distrust of government and public institutions, and illustrates how twenty-first century institutions are grappling with issues related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice; responding to decades of state and local disinvestment by engaging in public-private partnerships and other entrepreneurial ventures; and shedding historical precedents to educate and train learners in new ways. The book concludes with predictions for the future and an analysis of the challenges and opportunities that await higher education leaders, faculty, students, and policymakers. Readers of The Shaping of American Higher Education will: Gain an awareness of how history has shaped—and has been shaped by—institutions of higher education Develop an in-depth understanding of current issues in colleges and universities, including student activism and free speech; declining numbers of full-time and tenured faculty; equity-driven approaches to teaching and learning; new pathways to degrees and non-degree credentials; increasingly complex governance and administrative structures; entrepreneurial approaches to revenue generation and fiscal sustainability; and heightened pressures for student and institutional accountability. Benefit from a comprehensive analysis of how American higher education has evolved from the first colonial colleges to a complex system of liberal arts colleges, research universities, broad-access and Minority-Serving Institutions, community colleges, and for-profit institutions The Shaping of American Higher Education is required reading for higher education administrators, faculty, scholars, and policymakers and makes an excellent textbook for use in graduate and undergraduate courses on higher education.
Download or read book College and Student written by Kenneth A. Feldman and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College and Student: Selected Readings in the Social Psychology of Higher Education is a collection of papers that provides a sociological analysis of higher education. The title empathizes on in-depth analysis of topics rather than covering a wide variety of higher education topics. The text first covers the structure and process in higher education, and then proceeds to tackling the transition from high school to college. Next, the selection deals with the change and stability during college years. The fourth part talks about the assessment of the influence on different college environments. Part Five discusses the students and college substructures, while Part Six tackles the students, student culture, and teachers. The text talks about recommendations, innovations, experimentations, and reform. The book will be of great use to educators, sociologists, and behavioral scientists.
Download or read book The Word on College Reading and Writing written by Carol Burnell and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interactive, multimedia text that introduces students to reading and writing at the college level.
Download or read book What is College Reading written by Alice S. Horning and published by CSU Open Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers replicable strategies to help educators think about how and when students learn the skills of reading, synthesizing information, and drawing inferences across multiple texts.
Download or read book Higher Education A Worldwide Inventory of Centers and Programs written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of higher education studies has expanded dramatically in recent years. This book provides a unique and comprehensive guide, including an inventory of 199 centers, programs, and institutes in the field, a essay analyzing the emergence and current status of higher education as an area of study, and a listing of 191 journals focusing on higher education. Together, these three resources constitute the more comprehensive overview of the field available anywhere. Philip G. Altbach’s essay ‘Research and training in higher education’ discusses the origins of the field, the central issues of concern in the research literature, and trends among centers and institutes focusing on higher education worldwide. The inventory, which constitutes most of the book, provides information on the centers and programs, including the names of staff members, focus of work, and relevant addresses and websites. The expansion in the number of journals in the field is illustrated in the journals listing, which provides information about editors, substantive focus, and addresses of journals throughout the world. This book is a unique resources and a benchmark for an emerging field.
Download or read book The Power of Reading written by Stephen D. Krashen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-08-19 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the case for free voluntary reading set out in the book's 1993 first edition, this new, updated, and much-looked-for second edition explores new research done on the topic in the last ten years as well as looking anew at some of the original research reviewed. Krashen also explores research surrounding the role of school and public libraries and the research indicating the necessity of a print-rich environment that provides light reading (comics, teen romances, magazines) as well as the best in literature to assist in educating children to read with understanding and in second language acquisition. He looks at the research surrounding reading incentive/rewards programs and specifically at the research on AR (Accelerated Reader) and other electronic reading products.
Download or read book Words Onscreen written by Naomi S. Baron and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Words Onscreen, Naomi Baron offers a fascinating and timely look at how technology affects the way we read.
Download or read book The Future of the City of Intellect written by Steven G. Brint and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on new data and new analytical frameworks, this book assesses the forces of change at play in the development of American universities and their prospects for the future. The book begins with a lengthy introduction by Clark Kerr that not only provides an overview of change since the time he coined the phrase the city of intellect but also discusses the major changes that will affect American universities over the next thirty years. Part One examines demographic and economic changes, such as the rise of nearly universal higher education, private gift and corporate sponsorship of research, new labor market opportunities, and increasing inequality among institutions and disciplines. Part Two assesses the profound influence of the Internet and other technologies on teaching and learning. Part Three describes how the various forces of change affect the nature of academic research and the organization of disciplines and the curriculum. Part Four analyzes the consequences of change for university governance and the means by which universities in the future can maintain high levels of achievement while maintaining high levels of autonomy. The contributors include many of todays leading scholars of higher education. They are Andrew Abbott, Steven Brint, Richard Chait, Burton R. Clark, Randall Collins, David J. Collis, Roger L. Geiger, Patricia J. Gumport, Clark Kerr, Richard A. Lanham, Jason Owen-Smith, Walter W. Powell, Sheila Slaughter, and Carol Tomlinson-Keasey.
Download or read book Essential Documents in the History of American Higher Education written by John R. Thelin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This course book presents primary sources that chart the social, intellectual, and political history of American colleges and universities from the seventeenth century to the present"--
Download or read book International Education Past Present Problems and Prospects written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Task Force on International Education and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Readings in Public Education in the United States written by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Read Or Not to Read A Question of National Consequence written by Dana Gioia and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Executive Summary for a report which gathers & collates the best national data available to provide a reliable & comprehensive overview of American reading today. This report relies on large, nat. studies conducted on a regular basis by U.S. fed. agencies, supplemented by academic, foundation, & business surveys. Although there has been measurable progress in recent years in reading ability at the elementary school level, all progress appears to halt as children enter their teenage years. There is a general decline in reading among teenage & adult Americans. Both reading ability & the habit of regular reading have greatly declined among college grad. The declines have demonstrable social, economic, cultural, & civic implications. Charts & tables.
