The Liberal Arts College Movement
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The Liberal Arts College Movement
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Author : Conference of liberal arts colleges. Chicago
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930
The Liberal Arts College Movement written by Conference of liberal arts colleges. Chicago and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with Education, Humanistic categories.
The Liberal Arts College Movement Proceedings Of The Conference Of Liberal Arts Colleges Held In Chicago March 18 20 1930
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Author : Chicago Conference of liberal arts colleges
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930
The Liberal Arts College Movement Proceedings Of The Conference Of Liberal Arts Colleges Held In Chicago March 18 20 1930 written by Chicago Conference of liberal arts colleges and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with Universities and colleges categories.
The Community College And The Good Society
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Author : Chad Hanson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-08
The Community College And The Good Society written by Chad Hanson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-08 with Education categories.
The community college is the largest single sector of the U.S. higher education network. As of 2005, 40 percent of newly enrolled undergraduate students attended community colleges. The American two-year school is a vast, rapidly changing, and under-studied institution. The aim of The Community College and the Good Society is tocritically analyze the internal changes and external forces that shifted the focus of the two-year college-from the liberal arts to job training. Chad Hanson raises a series of questions about what is lost or forsaken when public institutions become preoccupied with economic goals. When educational institutions turn their attention toward training workers to private-sector specifications, Hanson argues, our social and cultural lives suffer. He describes the "the learning college movement," an ideological framework that justifies the current emphasis on vocational training. In addition, he explores the implications of competency-based education, a philosophy and method for creating curriculum with strong support among administrators and boards of trustees. For more than four decades, a steady stream of commentary aimed at understanding the two-year school made its way into the literature on higher education. In this work, Hanson provides an alternative view of the community college. He offers suggestions for new teaching strategies, curriculum, and organizational structure. These changes will encourage the potential for the two-year college to flourish as an institution that provides a permanent place for the arts and sciences.
Call To Purpose
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Author : Matthew Hartley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-10
Call To Purpose written by Matthew Hartley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-10 with Education categories.
A decade ago, the majority of liberal arts colleges, suffering from a decline in resources, drifted from their traditional missions. This study looks at three insitutions and suggests that a clear mission is more than a common goal.
Liberal Arts At The Brink
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Author : Victor E. Ferrall Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-15
Liberal Arts At The Brink written by Victor E. Ferrall Jr. and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-15 with Education categories.
Liberal arts colleges represent a tiny portion of the higher education market—no more than 2 percent of enrollees. Yet they produce a stunningly large percentage of America’s leaders in virtually every field of endeavor. The educational experience they offer—small classes led by professors devoted to teaching and mentoring, in a community dedicated to learning—has been a uniquely American higher education ideal. Liberal Arts at the Brink is a wake-up call for everyone who values liberal arts education. A former college president trained in law and economics, Ferrall shows how a spiraling demand for career-related education has pressured liberal arts colleges to become vocational, distorting their mission and core values. The relentless competition among them to attract the “best” students has driven down tuition revenues while driving up operating expenses to levels the colleges cannot cover. The weakest are being forced to sell out to vocational for-profit universities or close their doors. The handful of wealthy elite colleges risk becoming mere dispensers of employment and professional school credentials. The rest face the prospect of moving away from liberal arts and toward vocational education in order to survive. Writing in a personable, witty style, Ferrall tackles the host of threats and challenges liberal arts colleges now confront. Despite these daunting realities, he makes a spirited case for the unique benefits of the education they offer—to students and the nation. He urges liberal arts colleges to stop going it alone and instead band together to promote their mission and ensure their future.
The Liberal Arts College Adapting To Change
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Author : Gary Bonvillian
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-02-04
The Liberal Arts College Adapting To Change written by Gary Bonvillian and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-04 with Education categories.
Social, economic, and market conditions have posed a serious threat to the survival of small schools. This book focuses on the adaptation of small, private, and predominantly liberal arts colleges to the changing conditions and demands of higher education. The ability of small schools to remain a force in the American system of higher education is a compelling story and an example of the strategic management of academic organizations. The history and accomplishments of one school in particular, Keuka College in New York State, is profiled in detail, with emphasis on the role of the administration and the faculty in institutional decision-making. The study found that the increasing pressures to respond quickly to external conditions require a willingness to make decisions that often challenge traditional norms in the relationship between administration and faculty. The book also examines recent initiatives of other schools to competitively position themselves Accepting the reality that all colleges and universities compete for students, small schools have demonstrated an extraordinary ability to apply new and creative management practices, many of which are examined in the book. In addition to academic leaders, other audiences such as boards, faculty, historians and scholars of higher education will find the book a valuable reference.
The Evolution Of Liberal Arts In The Global Age
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Author : Peter Marber
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-16
The Evolution Of Liberal Arts In The Global Age written by Peter Marber and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-16 with Education categories.
Advanced and developing countries across the globe are embracing the liberal arts approach in higher education to foster more innovative human capital to compete in the global economy. Even as interest in the tradition expands outside the United States, can the democratic philosophy underlying the liberal arts tradition be sustained? Can developing countries operating under heavy authoritarian systems cultivate schools predicated on open discussion and debate? Can entrenched specialist systems in Europe and Asia successfully adopt the multidisciplinary liberal arts model? These are some of the questions put to leading scholars and senior higher education practitioners within this edited collection. Beginning with historical context, international contributors explore the contours of liberal arts education amid public calls for change in the United States, the growing global interest in the approach outside the United States, as well as the potential of liberal arts philosophy in a global knowledge economy.
Distinctively American
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Author : Stephen R. Graubard
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Distinctively American written by Stephen R. Graubard and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Education categories.
There is much change underway in American higher education. New technologies are challenging the teaching practices of yesterday, distance learning is lauded, and private firms offer to certify the educational credentials that businesses and others will deem satisfactory. In this new environment, America's liberal arts colleges propound a quite different set of values. Their continuing faith in the liberal arts--not as the nineteenth century chose to define them but as the twenty-first century will be obliged to reconsider them--is being tested.Distinctively American examines the American liberal arts college as an institution, from its role in the lives of students, to its value as a form of education. It explores the threats faced by liberal arts colleges as well as the transformative role, both positive and negative, information technology will play in their future development and survival. In the preface introducing the volume, Stephen Graubard examines the history of the American liberal arts colleges, from their early disdained reputations in comparison to European schools, to their slow rise to becoming "world-class universities."This important volume explores the triumphs and challenges of one segment of the American higher educational universe. It also addresses a larger question: What ought this country be teaching its young, the many millions who now throng its colleges and universities? Distinctively American is essential reading for all concerned with the future of higher education.
The Liberal Arts College Movement
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Author : Conference of liberal arts colleges. Chicago
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930
The Liberal Arts College Movement written by Conference of liberal arts colleges. Chicago and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with Education, Humanistic categories.
The Liberal Arts College S Responsibility For The Individual Student
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Author : Earl J. McGrath
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
The Liberal Arts College S Responsibility For The Individual Student written by Earl J. McGrath and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Education, Higher categories.