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Knowledge matters
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Craig J. Calhoun,Diana Rhoten |
Universities Are Changing Around The World. In China and Africa there is massive expansion, while many of America's greatest public universities are experiencing major budget cuts. In Latin America u… |
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Making the university matter
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Barbie Zelizer |
"Making the University Matter investigates how academics situate themselves simultaneously in the university and the world and how doing so affects the viability of the university setting. The univer… |
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Higher education across the circumpolar north
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Geoffrey R. Weller,Douglas C. Nord |
x, 203 p. ; 23 cm |
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Excellent Sheep
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William Deresiewicz |
This book is a groundbreaking manifesto about what our nation's top schools should be -- but aren't -- providing: "The ex-Yale professor effectively skewers elite colleges, their brainy but soulless … |
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Creating knowledge, strengthening nations
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Michael L. Skolnik,Glen A. Jones |
xv, 298 p. : 24 cm |
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Campus confidential
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Jacques Berlinerblau |
"A tenured prof. breaks ranks to reveal what's wrong with American higher education and how it affects you. Professors can be underpaid. Marginalized. Over-reviewed. But one fact remains: The success… |
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Quality in higher education
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Turner, David A. professor |
"The quality of higher education is a hot topic, especially as students around the world are asked to pay more towards their own education, and expect to get what they pay for. In addition, league t… |
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College (un)bound
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Jeffrey J. Selingo |
Jeff Selingo, journalist and editor-in-chief of the Chronicle for Higher Education, argues that colleges can no longer sell a four-year degree as the ticket to success in life. College (Un)Bound expo… |
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Toward a more perfect university
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Jonathan R. Cole |
"A renowned academic leader identifies the ways America's great universities should evolve in the decades ahead to maintain their global preeminence and enhance their intellectual stature and social … |
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The great mistake
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Christopher Newfield |
Higher education in America, still thought to be the world leader, is in crisis. University students are falling behind their international peers in attainment, while suffering from unprecedented stu… |
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Designing state higher education systems for a new century
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Richard C. Richardson |
"Based on a study by the California Higher Education Policy Center, now The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, this new work from the ACE/Oryx Series on Higher Education proposes… |
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Collaborative Learning
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Kenneth A. Bruffee |
Advocates a far-reaching change in the relations between college and university professors and their students, between the learned and the learning. |
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Academic identities in higher education
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Evans, Linda,Jon Nixon |
"Academic identity is continually being formed and reformed by the institutional, socio-cultural and political contexts within which academic practitioners operate. In Europe the impact of the 2008 e… |
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Higher education and the new society
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George Keller |
"While he celebrated higher education as the engine of progress in every aspect of American life, George Keller also challenged academia's sacred cows and entrenched practices with provocative ideas … |
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The game of life
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James Lawrence Shulman |
"Shulman and Bowen celebrate the benefits of collegiate sports, while identifying the subtle ways in which athletic intensification can pull even prestigious institutions from their missions. By exam… |
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The university in ruins
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Bill Readings |
"It is no longer clear what role the University plays in society. The structure of the contemporary University is changing rapidly, and we have yet to understand what precisely these changes will mea… |
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