Checklist for Change Making American Higher Education a Sustainable Enterprise

Name: Checklist for Change Making American Higher Education a Sustainable Enterprise
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ISBN: 9780813561349

ISBN-10: 0813561345

ISBN-13: 9780813561349

Edition: 2013

Authors: Robert Zemsky, Lisa Banning

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Almost every day American higher education is making news with a list of problems that includes the incoherent nature of the curriculum, the resistance of the faculty to change, and the influential role of the federal government both through major investments in student aid and intrusive policies.Checklist for Changenot only diagnoses these problems, but also provides constructive recommendations for practical change.Robert Zemsky details the complications that have impeded every credible reform intended to change American higher education. He demythologizes such initiatives as the Morrill Act, the GI Bill, and the Higher Education Act of 1972, shedding new light on their origins and the…

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List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 8/20/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Robert Zemsky



Acknowledgments



Trapped in an Ecclesiastes Moment



A Faculty Encamped Just North of Armageddon



A Federalized Market with Little Incentive to Change



A Regulatory Quagmire



A Troublesome Fractiousness



A Disruptive Lexicon



A Different Footprint



A Liberal Arts Conundrum



A New Peace Treaty



A Stronger Faculty Voice



A Competent Curriculum



A Federal Commitment to Fix, Fund, and Facilitate


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