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Item Information   Holdings       More by this author     Bok, Derek Curtis. author.     Subjects     Universities and colleges -- United States -- Administration     Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States.     Academic achievement -- United States.     Educational change -- United States.     Academic achievement     Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives     Educational change     Universities and colleges -- Administration     Hochschule.     Universität     Hochschulpolitik.     Bildungsreform     United States     United States     Browse Catalog     by author:      Bok, Derek Curtis. author.       by title:      The Struggle to refo...         MARC Display

The Struggle to reform our colleges / Derek Bok. by Bok, Derek Curtis. author. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017] Description:  x, 228 pages ; 25 cm Contents:  Introduction -- Part One. The Challenge. Graduation Rates and Educational Attainment -- The Quality of Education -- Part Two. Sources of Influence. Can Colleges Meet the Challenges by Themselves? -- The Influence of Students -- Employers -- Competition, Old and New -- The Major Foundations -- The Role of Government in Raising Levels of Educational Attainment -- Government Efforts to Improve the Quality of Education -- Accreditation -- Part Three. The Way Forward. Increasing Educational Attainment -- Improving the Quality of Education -- Encouraging Reform. Summary:  Why efforts to improve American higher educational attainment haven't worked, and where to go from here. During the first decade of this century, many commentators predicted that American higher education was about to undergo major changes that would be brought about under the stimulus of online learning and other technological advances. Toward the end of the decade, the president of the United States declared that America would regain its historic lead in the education of its workforce within the next ten years through a huge increase in the number of students earning "quality" college degrees. Several years have elapsed since these pronouncements were made, yet the rate of progress has increased very little, if at all, in the number of college graduates or the nature and quality of the education they receive. In The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges, Derek Bok seeks to explain why so little change has occurred by analyzing the response of America's colleges; the influence of students, employers, foundations, accrediting organizations, and government officials; and the impact of market forces and technological innovation. In the last part of the book, Bok identifies a number of initiatives that could improve the performance of colleges and universities. The final chapter examines the process of change itself and describes the strategy best calculated to quicken the pace of reform and enable colleges to meet the challenges that confront them.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Calmar Campus Library Circulation Stacks (Calmar) 378.73 Bok 2017 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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