Pursuing Quality, Access, and Affordability

A Field Guide to Improving Higher Education

Stephen C. Ehrmann

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781620369906
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000977721
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Administration

Whether they recognize it or not, virtually all colleges and universities face three GrandChallenges:·Improve the learning outcomes of a higher education: A large majority of college graduates are weak in capabilities that faculty and employers both see as crucial.·Extend more equitable access to degrees: Too often, students from underserved groups and poor households either don't enter college or else drop out without a degree. The latter group may be worse off economically than if they'd never attempted college.·Make academic programs more affordable (in money and time) for students and other important stakeholder groups: Many potential students believe they lack the money or time needed for academic success. Many faculty believe they don't have time to make their courses and degree programs more effective. Many institutions believe they can't afford to improve outcomes.These challenges are global. But, in a higher education system such as that in the United States, the primary response must be institutional. This book analyzes how, over the years, six pioneering colleges and universities have begun to make visible, cumulative progress on all three fronts.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Endorsement
• Dedication Page
• Epigraph
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Part One: Why Improve Quality, Equitable Access, and Affordability? and How?
• Part Two: 3Fold Gains Guided by a Single Paradigm
• Part Three: Sustaining the Integrative Pursuit of 3Fold Gains
• Part Four: Aligning Initiatives Across Three Domains
• Part Five: Doing It
• References
• About the Author
• Index