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KlappentextPresenting multiple perspectives on a wide array of crucial issues, this book features realistic representations of students, faculty, curriculum, administration, and the socio-cultural conditions that shape higher education. The incisive essays are written by practitioners on the front lines of the academy´s battle to validate and sustain its core principles in a complex, rapidly evolving world.
Zusatztext«Joseph L. DeVitis has skillfully put together a volume of enormous importance for all of us who work in higher education. This is a must have book. The highly informative chapters form a remarkably illuminating whole. You will be glad to have this work on your desk for ready reference and careful reflection.» (William T. Greer, Jr., President, Virginia Wesleyan College) «The essays in this volume aptly capture the ambivalence, the joy, the sorrow, the confidence, the consternation, the optimism, and the equally profound perplexities of living and working in the contemporary college and university.» (Wayne J. Urban, Paul W. Bryant Professor, 2009-2010, Associate Director, Education Policy Center, Professor of Higher Education, The University of Alabama) «In his preface to this extraordinary collection of essays, Joseph L. DeVitis writes that This book is both a celebration of colleges and universities and a challenge to readers to take a hard look at where they are going [] It includes a remarkable range of topics on the contemporary college and university. The volumes illustrious contributors and editor are to be commended for the wisdom and sensitivity reflected in their insightful, hopeful, splendidly written essays.» (Robert H. Deluty, Associate Dean of the Graduate School, University of Maryland, Baltimore County) «Written by some of the academys most respected thinkers and leaders, this welcome book affords an authoritative overview of crucial themes in todays postsecondary landscape. The essays examine a wide range of current issues and strategies and offer critical commentary on higher educations new normal. The volume also provides reflective historical context and useful policy recommendations that make it must reading for all those who care about, study, work in, and lead our colleges and universities.» (Sandra Jordan, Chancellor, University of South Carolina, Aiken)
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-4331-1602-5
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2013
Erscheinungsdatum23.04.2013
Reihen-Nr.64
Seiten418 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht970 g
Artikel-Nr.28422891
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