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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Zemsky, Robert, 1940- Checklist for change. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2013] (DLC) 2012038526 (OCoLC)819631690 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Zemsky |
ISBN: | 9781461937302 1461937302 9780813561356 0813561353 |
OCLC Number: | 855534422 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (243 pages) |
Contents: | 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. |
Responsibility: | Robert Zemsky. |
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Abstract:
Checklist for Change diagnoses the problems in American higher education today and describes principal reforms that must occur in combination in order for it to remain a vital enterprise: a fundamental recasting of federal financial aid; new mechanisms for better channeling the competition among colleges and universities; recasting the undergraduate curriculum; and a stronger, more collective faculty voice in governance that defines not why, but how the enterprise must change.
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In Zemsky's blunt and accessible new book, he delivers a refreshing vision and outline for reforming American higher education that is neither starry-eyed nor hopeless, and thankfully free of neo-inspirational screed, flowery rhetoric, or a call-to-arms ending. His diagnosis of and solutions to escalating costs, improving scholarship, and raising completion rates are thought-provoking, and he cites many real-life innovations." - Publishers Weekly Read more...
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