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Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Beyond Free College seeks greater investment in higher education by promoting a single metric-lower-cost-per-degree-granted-as the driver of a transfer pathway. The book aims to spur higher education advocates to reorganize the transfer function to serve neotraditional students in ways that advance completion, not just access to higher education"--
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Our current system of higher education dates to the period from 1865 to 1925, when the nation's new universities created grades and departments, majors and minors, in an attempt to prepare young people for a world transformed by the telegraph and the Model T. As Cathy N. Davidson argues in The New Education, this approach to education is wholly unsuited to the era of the gig economy. From the Ivy League to community colleges, she introduces us to...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Drawing on a large body of empirical evidence, former Harvard President Derek Bok examines how much progress college students actually make toward widely accepted goals of undergraduate education. His conclusions are sobering. Although most students make gains in many important respects, they improve much less than they should in such important areas as writing, critical thinking, quantitative skills, and moral reasoning. Large majorities of college...
Publisher
Information Science Reference
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This book provides knowledge on current literature, instructional design, assessment, and "best practice" to increase a student's cultural awareness and global competence within higher education. Readers will increase their understanding of developed coursework, assessments and faced challenges particularly resistance, to increasing a student's cultural awareness and global competence"--
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