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Get Real 49 Challenges Confronting Higher Education

Tierney William G.
Innbundet / 2020 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781438481272
Publisert
2020-12-01
Utgiver
Vendor
State University of New York Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
240

Forfatter
Tierney William G.

Om bidragsyterne

William G. Tierney is University Professor Emeritus and Founding Director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California. His many books include Relational Sociology and Research on Schools, Colleges, and Universities (coedited with Suneal Kolluri) and The Problem of College Readiness (coedited with Julia C. Duncheon), both also published by SUNY Press; Diversifying Digital Learning: Online Literacy and Educational Opportunity (coedited with Zoë B. Corwin and Amanda Ochsner); and Rethinking Education and Poverty.

Get Real 49 Challenges Confronting Higher Education

Tierney William G.
Innbundet / 2020 / Engelsk
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"Bill Tierney has been involved in the trenches and citadels of higher education policy and practice issues. This readable and informative book could be (and should be) required reading for new board members at colleges and universities along with presidents, provosts, and deans. Faculty Senate officers will find this primer to be essential, and it will be readable and refreshing for general audiences such as legislators, parents, and alumni." — John R. Thelin, author of A History of American Higher Education, Third Edition

A thought-provoking overview of the many challenges facing higher education and how to deal with them by a leading thinker in the field.Higher education always seems to be in crisis. Governments, foundations, professional associations, and the occasional scornful professor all tend to lament one or another problem plaguing America's colleges and universities. The more apocalyptic claims state that the United States is a "nation at risk," that our students' minds have been closed, or that radical faculty have run amok and are brainwashing our youth.In Get Real, William G. Tierney, a leading scholar of higher education, cuts through this noise, drawing on his experience and expertise to provide a thought-provoking overview of the many challenges confronting higher education and how to deal with them. In forty-nine short, engaging essays, he aims not to stoke the flames of controversy or promote a particular stance but to provoke creative, forward-looking public discussion about what higher education could and should look like in the twenty-first century. Tierney clearly distills and offers his take on critical issues-from diversity and free speech to the rise of for-profit colleges and student debt-but the goal is always to give readers the background and tools to form their own opinions. Written in a conversational tone and laced with personal anecdotes, Get Real is informed by scholarly literature without being weighed down by it and includes suggestions for further reading.
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AcknowledgmentsPreface1. A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to WasteThe Benefits of a Postsecondary EducationThe Worth of Universities to SocietyThe Challenges That ExistGetting Higher Education's Groove Back2. Canaries in the Academic Coal MineThe Twenty-First Century Idea of a UniversityIs Higher Education an Aging Industry or a Hot Commodity? Or Both?Why For-Profit Higher Education Grew"It's None of Your Business." "Yes, It Is!""Good" Public Goods3. The Kids Are Alright—No, They're NotJohn Dewey, Meet Mark ZuckerbergThat Pesky Problem of the First College YearLet's Get Real about the (Lack of) Importance of Attending ClassWhat's Going on Outside of Class4. Safe Spaces, Trigger Warnings, and the Contours of DiversityAmerica's Love Affair with "Merit"Safe Spaces for "Snowflakes"The Imprint of Microaggressions and Trigger WarningsDemands versus Conversations5. Students as CustomersUniversities as Amazon (or Whole Foods)The Lords of the Manor: FacultyThe Parameters of a Good Idea: For-Profit Higher EducationThe Flimflam Man Reexamined: For-Profit Higher Education6. Tear Down That Wall: From High School to CollegeCollege for All?College for Some?Preparing for CollegeCollege Knowledge7. Jobs, Jobs, Not JobsThe Good Old Days: Before Anyone Was "AcademicallyAdrift"Reading and Writing and ArithmeticAhead at the Starting LineKicking the Learning Can Down the Road8. The Cost of Free SpeechUnderstanding Academic FreedomThe Psychic Cost of Free SpeechFake News and Academic FreedomThe Monetary Cost of Free SpeechOn Censoring Others and Oneself9. Goodbye, Mr. ChipsWhy Tenure Came into ExistenceWhy Tenure Is Going AwayThe Color of the Academy10. Paying for CollegeUnderstanding CostsHow Much Is a Degree Really Worth?How to Avoid (or at Least Minimize) DebtThe Pluses and Minuses of Working in College11. Noses In, Fingers Out: Rethinking Shared GovernanceShared Governance No MorePresidents at the Trough: Perks and More PerksBoards Asleep at the WheelMonkey See, Monkey Don'tLeadership for the Twenty-First Century12. Lessons LearnedInconvenient TruthsBuilding a Community of DifferenceThe Way ForwardNotesFurther ReadingAbout the AuthorIndex
Les mer
A thought-provoking overview of the many challenges facing higher education and how to deal with them by a leading thinker in the field.

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"Bill Tierney has been involved in the trenches and citadels of higher education policy and practice issues. This readable and informative book could be (and should be) required reading for new board members at colleges and universities along with presidents, provosts, and deans. Faculty Senate officers will find this primer to be essential, and it will be readable and refreshing for general audiences such as legislators, parents, and alumni." — John R. Thelin, author of A History of American Higher Education, Third Edition

A thought-provoking overview of the many challenges facing higher education and how to deal with them by a leading thinker in the field.Higher education always seems to be in crisis. Governments, foundations, professional associations, and the occasional scornful professor all tend to lament one or another problem plaguing America's colleges and universities. The more apocalyptic claims state that the United States is a "nation at risk," that our students' minds have been closed, or that radical faculty have run amok and are brainwashing our youth.In Get Real, William G. Tierney, a leading scholar of higher education, cuts through this noise, drawing on his experience and expertise to provide a thought-provoking overview of the many challenges confronting higher education and how to deal with them. In forty-nine short, engaging essays, he aims not to stoke the flames of controversy or promote a particular stance but to provoke creative, forward-looking public discussion about what higher education could and should look like in the twenty-first century. Tierney clearly distills and offers his take on critical issues-from diversity and free speech to the rise of for-profit colleges and student debt-but the goal is always to give readers the background and tools to form their own opinions. Written in a conversational tone and laced with personal anecdotes, Get Real is informed by scholarly literature without being weighed down by it and includes suggestions for further reading.
Les mer
AcknowledgmentsPreface1. A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to WasteThe Benefits of a Postsecondary EducationThe Worth of Universities to SocietyThe Challenges That ExistGetting Higher Education's Groove Back2. Canaries in the Academic Coal MineThe Twenty-First Century Idea of a UniversityIs Higher Education an Aging Industry or a Hot Commodity? Or Both?Why For-Profit Higher Education Grew"It's None of Your Business." "Yes, It Is!""Good" Public Goods3. The Kids Are Alright—No, They're NotJohn Dewey, Meet Mark ZuckerbergThat Pesky Problem of the First College YearLet's Get Real about the (Lack of) Importance of Attending ClassWhat's Going on Outside of Class4. Safe Spaces, Trigger Warnings, and the Contours of DiversityAmerica's Love Affair with "Merit"Safe Spaces for "Snowflakes"The Imprint of Microaggressions and Trigger WarningsDemands versus Conversations5. Students as CustomersUniversities as Amazon (or Whole Foods)The Lords of the Manor: FacultyThe Parameters of a Good Idea: For-Profit Higher EducationThe Flimflam Man Reexamined: For-Profit Higher Education6. Tear Down That Wall: From High School to CollegeCollege for All?College for Some?Preparing for CollegeCollege Knowledge7. Jobs, Jobs, Not JobsThe Good Old Days: Before Anyone Was "AcademicallyAdrift"Reading and Writing and ArithmeticAhead at the Starting LineKicking the Learning Can Down the Road8. The Cost of Free SpeechUnderstanding Academic FreedomThe Psychic Cost of Free SpeechFake News and Academic FreedomThe Monetary Cost of Free SpeechOn Censoring Others and Oneself9. Goodbye, Mr. ChipsWhy Tenure Came into ExistenceWhy Tenure Is Going AwayThe Color of the Academy10. Paying for CollegeUnderstanding CostsHow Much Is a Degree Really Worth?How to Avoid (or at Least Minimize) DebtThe Pluses and Minuses of Working in College11. Noses In, Fingers Out: Rethinking Shared GovernanceShared Governance No MorePresidents at the Trough: Perks and More PerksBoards Asleep at the WheelMonkey See, Monkey Don'tLeadership for the Twenty-First Century12. Lessons LearnedInconvenient TruthsBuilding a Community of DifferenceThe Way ForwardNotesFurther ReadingAbout the AuthorIndex
Les mer
A thought-provoking overview of the many challenges facing higher education and how to deal with them by a leading thinker in the field.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781438481272
Publisert
2020-12-01
Utgiver
Vendor
State University of New York Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
240

Forfatter
Tierney William G.

Om bidragsyterne

William G. Tierney is University Professor Emeritus and Founding Director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California. His many books include Relational Sociology and Research on Schools, Colleges, and Universities (coedited with Suneal Kolluri) and The Problem of College Readiness (coedited with Julia C. Duncheon), both also published by SUNY Press; Diversifying Digital Learning: Online Literacy and Educational Opportunity (coedited with Zoë B. Corwin and Amanda Ochsner); and Rethinking Education and Poverty.

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