Edition |
Fourth edition. |
Description |
x, 559 pages : illustrations; 23 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Part I: Core enduring missions. The ten generations of American higher education / Roger L. Geiger -- Academic freedom : past, present, and future / Robert M. O'Neil -- Curriculum in higher education : the organizational dynamics of academic reform / Michael N. Bastedo -- Harsh realities : the professoriate in the twenty-first century / Philip G. Altbach -- Graduate education and research : interdependence and strain / Patricia J. Gumport -- The intersecting authority of boards, presidents, and faculty : toward shared leadership / Peter D. Eckel and Adrianna Kezar -- Part II: Macro forces at work. Patterns of higher education development / Philip G. Altbach -- The federal government and higher education / Michael Mumper, Lawrence E. Gladieux, Jacqueline E. King, and Melanie E. Corrigan -- The states and higher education / Aims C. McGuinness, Jr. -- The legal environment : the implementation of legal change on campus / Joy Blanchard and Benjamin Baez -- Financing American higher education : reconciling institutional financial viability and student affordability / D. Bruce Johnstone -- Part III: Frontiers of rapid change. Extending opportunity, perpetuating privilege : institutional stratification amid educational expansion / Lauren T. Schudde and Sara Goldrick-Rab -- The diversity imperative : moving to the next generation / Daryl G. Smith -- Homing in on learning and teaching : current approaches and future directions for higher education policy / Anna Neumann and Corbin M. Campbell -- Technology : the solution to higher education's pressing problems? / Laura W. Perna and Roman Ruiz -- Community colleges / Peter Riley Bahr and Jillian Leigh Gross -- State and markets in higher education : trends in academic capitalism / Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades. |
Subject |
Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States.
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Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Education, Higher -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives.
(OCoLC)fst00903015
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Education, Higher -- Political aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00903087
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Education, Higher -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00903107
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Hochschulpolitik. (DE-588)4113936-7
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Governance. (DE-588)4639012-1
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Bildungspolitik. (DE-588)4006667-8
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Hochschulreform. (DE-588)4025255-3
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Added Author |
Bastedo, Michael N., editor.
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Altbach, Philip G., editor.
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Gumport, Patricia J., editor.
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ISBN |
9781421419909 (paperback ;) (acid-free paper) |
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1421419904 (paperback ;) (acid-free paper) |
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9781421419893 (hardcover ;) (acid-free paper) |
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1421419890 (hardcover ;) (acid-free paper) |
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9781421419916 (electronic book) |
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1421419912 (electronic book) |
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