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Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften Colleges at the Crossroads: Taking Sides on Contested Issues: 517 (Counterpoints: Studies in Criticality)

Name: Colleges at the Crossroads: Taking Sides on Contested Issues: 517 (Counterpoints: Studies in Criticality)
Brand: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
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Focusing on crucial issues in higher education, this book challenges readers to go beyond taken-for-granted assumptions about America’s colleges and universities and instead critically examine important questions facing them in today’s troubled world. Each chapter presents divergent perspectives, that is, "pro" and "con" views, in the hope of stimulating reasoned dialogue among students, faculty, administrators, and the public at large. Readers will explore how internal factors in the academic community often interact with external social, economic, and political influences to produce conflictual results. They will see that academe is hardly value-neutral and inevitably political. This book urges them to transcend strident political persuasion and instead engage in the careful analysis needed to make colleges better. The text provides in-depth appraisal of key topics of controversy: the purposes of higher education, liberal education, academic freedom, political correctness, tenure, shared governance, faculty workload, admissions tests, student learning, Greek life, the worth of college, equity and social justice, athletics, student entitlement, technology and distance instruction, and college amenities. The book will appeal to students, faculty, staff, and all those interested in the future of higher education. It is especially useful for courses in contemporary issues in higher education, foundations of higher education, higher education and society, college student development, and the organization and administration of higher education.

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Brand: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 1433134225
Category: Books > Subjects > Computing & Internet > Computer Science
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 15 March 2018
Listed Since: 25 July 2017

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