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Item Information   Holdings       More by this author     Cole, Jonathan R. author.     Subjects     Universities and colleges -- United States     Universities and colleges -- United States -- Administration     Education, Higher -- United States     Education, Higher -- Curricula -- United States.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Cole, Jonathan R. author.       by title:      Toward a more perfec...         MARC Display

Toward a more perfect university / Jonathan R. Cole. by Cole, Jonathan R. author. New York : PublicAffairs, [2016] Description:  xiv, 409 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Getting in -- Thoughts on undergraduate education and its future -- A house built on a firm foundation -- The contours of the university -- The affordability and value of higher education : fact and fiction -- An accessible, high-quality education for all -- Creating new academic leagues and knowledge communities -- Reimagining the university campus -- The central dogma of a great university -- Reconstructing the university-government compact -- Structural change -- A United States that can accommodate great universities in 2040. Summary:  "A renowned academic leader identifies the ways America's great universities should evolve in the decades ahead to maintain their global preeminence and enhance their intellectual stature and social mission as higher education confronts the twenty-first-century developments in technology, humanities, culture, and economics"---Dust jacket. "Jonathan R. Cole, former provost and current University Professor at Columbia University, addresses some of the biggest challenges facing the modern American university: developing effective admission policies; creating the most meaningful examinations; dealing with rising costs; making undergraduate education central to the university's mission; exploring the role of the humanities; facilitating new discoveries and innovation; determining the place for professional schools; developing the research campuses of the future; assessing the role of sports; designing leadership and governance; and combating intellectual and legal threats to academic freedom"---Publisher description.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Calmar Campus Library Circulation Stacks (Calmar) 378.73 Col 2016 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Peosta Library Professional Development (located by the computers) 378.73 Col 2016 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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