The Higher Education Scene in America

Some Observations

• Author(s): Abraham Gitlow, Howard Gitlow,
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Pages: 212
• ISBN_10: 0761864598
  ISBN_13: 9780761864592
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Education / Administration / Higher , Education / Comparative , Education / Educational Policy & Reform / General , Education / Schools / Levels / Higher , Education / Organizations & Institutions ,

Description:... Based on the authors’ experiences in academe over seventy-five years, The Higher Education Scene in America: Some Observations discusses a number of issues that confront America’s higher education scene today. Those issue embrace such problems as: (1) the missions(s) of our colleges and universities and the development of critical thinking and/or employability; (2) the role of for-profit academic institutions; (3) the impact of online technology; (4) diffusion of power and achievement of consensus between administrators and faculty; (5) the importance of financial matters, embracing budgets, fundraising, and endowments; (6) the insidious problem of conflicts of interest; (7) the scandalous impact of big-time, big-money Division 1 sports on academe; (8) the growth of non-academic functions; and (9) the importance of leadership in consensual institutions and how leaders are chosen.