Lesson plan : an agenda for change in American higher education /
American higher education faces some serious problems--but they are not the ones most people think. In this brief and accessible book, two leading experts show that many so-called crises--from the idea that typical students are drowning in debt to the belief that tuition increases are being driven b...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
2016.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Prelude
- Pressing national needs. Achieving higher levels of educational attainment ; Raising college completion rates in the United States ; Reducing time-to-degree ; Reducing disparities in outcomes by socioeconomic status and race or ethnicity ; Achieving affordability ; Strengthening leadership capacities
- An agenda for change. Governmental funding--apart from student aid ; Payments by individuals--and student aid (including loans) ; Increasing efficiency ; Putting high-profile college sports in proper perspective ; Rationalizing staffing : supporting the development of a "teaching corps" ; Improving teaching through technology : adaptive learning ; Enabling stronger leadership.
