Change We Must
Deciding the Future of Higher Education
- 228 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Change We Must
Deciding the Future of Higher Education
About this book
A former chancellor and a lineup of stellar educators offer plans and ideas for making education work better for everyone. College is too expensive for too many. Politicians call for more financial support, but approve less. Underpaid, overworked adjuncts teach vastly more than the star faculty members who drew students to campus. Departments and administrations focus more on protecting their territories than on pedagogy or even management. Technology is extolled and resisted, hyped as the force that will utterly transform or deform education. It seems clear that the American system of higher education is broken. In a series of essays collected and edited by Matthew Goldstein, credited with reviving the vast City University of New York, and George Otte, Director of Academic Technology at CUNY, well-respected and innovative educators offer solutions to the fiscal, administrative, pedagogical, technical, and political problems. Among the solutions: * Break the centuries-old models of brick and mortar education and replace it with online, peer-led, and adaptive learning
* Re-envision governance so even reluctant faculty and administrators can once again become invested in education rather than self-interest
* Find innovative ways of promoting the changes American education so desperately needs, including figuring out when and where students are most likely to learn With essays from such thought leaders as Cathy N. Davidson, Candace Thille, Ray Schroeder, James Hilton, and Jonathan R. Cole, Change We Must is a must-read for anyone wanting American higher education to succeed and thrive in these challenging times.
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Table of contents
- Introduction: Raising the Real Issues, Asking the Right Questions
- Section 1: The Change Imperative
- The Bifurcating Higher Education Business Model
- Shared Governance and the Need for Decisive Action
- Section 1: The Change Imperative—Key Conclusions
- Section 2: The Changing World and the Changing Mission
- Technological Innovation in Education: What the Past Teaches, What the Present Promises
- Changing Higher Ed From the Classroom Up: How the Connected, Peer-Led Classroom Can Model Institutional Transformation
- Section 2: The Changing World and the Changing Mission—Key Conclusions
- Section 3: What the Changing Modes of Learning Are and Mean
- What the Science of Learning Indicates We Should Do Differently
- Why New Modes Are Not New Bottles for Old Wine
- Section 3: What the Changing Modes of Learning Are and Mean—Key Conclusions
- Section 4: Managing Change
- Strategic Decision-Making in an Emergent World
- A Delicate Balance: Promoting University Change in the 21st Century
- Section 4: Managing Change—Key Conclusions
- Afterword: Ramifications
- References