Ream / Braxton Ernest L. Boyer

Hope for Today's Universities
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5566-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Assesses the challenges plaguing our higher education system through selections of Ernest L. Boyer’s writings

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ream, Todd C.

Braxton, John M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Shaping the Debate: A Reflection on Ernest L. Boyer’s Approach to Education Policy
Mary Taylor Huber

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Facing Not So New Realities
Todd C. Ream and John M. Braxton

1. The Financial Crisis
John J. Cheslock

Thinking About the Unthinkable: Tuition and Student Fees in Public Higher Education
Financing Higher Education: Reshaping National Priorities

2. General Education and the Quest for Purpose
Cynthia A. Wells

The Core of Learning
The Core Curriculum: A Critique of Uncriticized Assumptions
General Education: The Integrated Core

3. Leading Academic
David S. Guthrie

Leadership: A Clear and Vital Mission
Academic Leadership: Some Personal Reflections
Reflections on Higher Education in the 1980s
Rebirth of Leadership from the Ashes of Bureaucracy

4. (Re)Defining Scholarship
Claire Howell Major

Naumburg Memorial Lecture
The New American Scholar
Assessing Scholarship

5. Crisis in Student Community
Robert D. Reason, Ezekiel W. Kimball, and Jessica Bennett

Education 2000: New Wine, New Bottles
The Greatness of a University
The Educated Heart: The Social and Moral Imperatives of Education

6. Access to College is About Equality of Opportunity
Vasti Torres

Boyer Calls for Equity in Five-Point Strategy
Higher Education: Access and Excellence
Celebrating Diversity: Building Community
Foreword: History of Empire State College
Excellence and Equity

7. Which Public to Serve
Kelly Ward

Higher Education: Priorities for the Future
The Engaged Scholar

Conclusion: Inspiring Hope
Todd C. Ream and John M. Braxton

Afterword: Education for the Common Good
Marty Kaplan

Bibliography
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Todd C. Ream is Professor of Higher Education at Taylor University and Research Fellow with Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion. He is the coauthor of several books, including The Idea of a Christian College: A Reexamination for Today's University and Christian Faith and Scholarship: An Exploration of Contemporary Developments. John M. Braxton is Professor of Education at Vanderbilt University. He is the coeditor of several books, including Rethinking College Student Retention and Professors Behaving Badly: Faculty Misconduct in Graduate Education.