Higher Education and the American Dream (inbunden)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
232
Utgivningsdatum
2023-03-31
Förlag
Central European University Press
Dimensioner
229 x 152 x 12 mm
Vikt
318 g
Antal komponenter
1
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Paperback
ISBN
9789633861066

Higher Education and the American Dream

Success and Its Discontents

av Martin Aurell, Librairie Artheme Fayard
Häftad,  Engelska, 2023-03-31
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Marvin Lazerson (professor at the Central European University and the University of Pennsylvania) considers the successes of higher education in the USA and how this has also bred discontent. He traces the development of higher education from the last half of the twentieth century, and considers why the expansion occurred, how it became an industry, and the increasing role of education in job attainment, as well as problems like rising costs, debates about the economic worth of higher education, and the decline in its civic, moral, and intellectual purposes. He also discusses changes in governance to a more business-like model, the managerial imperatives colleges face, changes to curriculum and research, and reform.
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"How, asks Marvin Lazerson, can a higher education system that depended so heavily on the dreams of so many millions of Americans have lost its way so completely? His readable and quietly authoritative response to this value-laden question has relevance far beyond the US." * Times Higher Education * "The unique perspective of this long-term administrator and education historian made Lazerson's memoir particularly compelling. Lazerson acknowledges many of the challenges facing American higher education, especially in the current economic downturn. Perhaps with hard work, including strong systems of truly shared governance, more and more Americans will be able to partake in the American dream Lazerson professes." * Academe *

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Marvin Lazerson is Professor of Higher Education in the School of Public Policy, Central European University and Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Acknowledgments Introduction: Houses, automobiles, and higher education Part I The Gospel of Getting Ahead Chapter 1 Building the dream (and worrying about it) Chapter 2 Higher education as vocational education Part II Governance and Managerial Dilemmas Chapter 3 Who governs higher education? Chapter 4 Managerial imperatives Part III The Learning Conundrum Chapter 5 Research, teaching, and undergraduate education Chapter 6 A revolution in teaching and learning? Part IV Making Things Better Chapter 7 Why is higher education so hard to reform? References Index

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