The Academy In Crisis

Author : Christopher J. Lucas
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312176860
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crisis in the Academy written by Christopher J. Lucas and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-03-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not since student turmoil and unrest wreaked havoc on the nation's campuses three decades ago has American higher education been the subject of so much controversy and popular criticism. Countless indictments compete for the public's attention as critics explore vital issues confronting today's institutions of higher learning: curricular fragmentation, declining academic standards, the apparent erosion of liberal learning within academe, widespread neglect of undergraduate education in favour of academic research and unprecedented financial woes. Confusion over fundamental priorities and purposes, the author argues, lies at the heart of the dilemma facing end-of-the-century higher education. Thoughtful and timely, Crisis in the Academy offers a wide-ranging analysis of contemporary higher education while making an important contribution to the ongoing public debate over the future of America's beleaguered and diverse institutions of higher learning.

Author : J Peters
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728304504
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book University on Watch written by J Peters and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: University on Watch is a story about youthful hope, yearning for more, and triumph over failures and mistakes beyond our own control and doing. The book is a native story to New York state, but couldn’t be more otherworldly, at times supernatural and grippingly suspenseful as the book unfolds. The crisis in the academy, or New London University, is one that goes to the very epicenter of higher learning and education. This crisis is also conjectured, created by the mind of Jacques Peters, a student rejected from the graduate school in English at New London University. Jacques Peters will do everything in his power to uncover the reason for his rejection from graduate school. Meta-power, a word Jacques Peters believes is behind the root of power in the English department and the reason for his rejection becomes the point of departure for a quest into the very root of power in New London. During this quest, Jacques stops at nothing to hold university officials, department offices, and the community accountable for terminating his education prematurely. Mr. Peters will travel across New York State, visiting friends, loved ones, and old schoolmates from his High School days at Wales. Through his journey, Jacques will undergo another transformation while contesting the admission decision to the very end, putting his health and life at risk forever.

Author : John Sommer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135148642X
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Academy in Crisis written by John Sommer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Academy in Crisis is a provocative contribution to an important debate....The costs of goverment support for American universities are not negligible. They include stress on some of the core values of universities and of science-vaules like openness, collaboration, and collegiality-and pressure, too, on other central institutional responsibilities, such as the education of undergradutes. Robert M. Rosenzweig, former president, Association of American Universities.

Author : John Sommer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351486438
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Academy in Crisis written by John Sommer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Academy in Crisis is a provocative contribution to an important debate....The costs of goverment support for American universities are not negligible. They include stress on some of the core values of universities and of science-vaules like openness, collaboration, and collegiality-and pressure, too, on other central institutional responsibilities, such as the education of undergradutes. Robert M. Rosenzweig, former president, Association of American Universities.

Author : American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS),
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0763774200
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prehospital Behavioral Emergencies and Crisis Response written by American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prehospital Behavioral Emergencies and Crisis Response was designed to complement Jones & Bartlett Learning's Continuing Education series. This resource educates readers on the crisis and behavioral health issues of patients in the prehospital environment. Separated into three parts, coverage includes: the acute behavioral crisis, chronic mental health issues, and prehospital response. Prehospital Behavioral Emergencies and Crisis Response simplifies various types of diagnosed mental disorders such as mood, personality, eating, and sleeping, as well as schizophrenia and psychosis. This is a great resource for continuing education courses and is also appropriate for any basic, intermediate, or paramedic prehospital provider course. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition.

Author : Mark C. Taylor
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307594602
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crisis on Campus written by Mark C. Taylor and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative look at the troubled present state of American higher education and a passionately argued and learned manifesto for its future. In Crisis on Campus, Mark C. Taylor—chair of the Department of Religion at Columbia University and a former professor at Williams College—expands on and refines the ideas presented in his widely read and hugely controversial 2009 New York Times op-ed. His suggestions for the ivory tower are both thought-provoking and rigorous: End tenure. Restructure departments to encourage greater cooperation among existing disciplines. Emphasize teaching rather than increasingly rarefied research. And bring that teaching to new domains, using emergent online networks to connect students worldwide. As a nation, he argues, we fail to make such necessary and sweeping changes at our peril. Taylor shows us the already-rampant consequences of decades of organizational neglect. We see promising graduate students in a distinctly unpromising job market, relegated—if they’re lucky—to positions that take little advantage of their training and talent. We see recent undergraduates with massive burdens of debt, and anxious parents anticipating the inflated tuitions we will see in ten or twenty years. We also see students at all levels chafing under the restrictions of traditional higher education, from the structures of assignments to limits on courses of study. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Accommodating the students of today and anticipating those of tomorrow, attuned to schools’ financial woes and the skyrocketing cost of education, Taylor imagines a new system—one as improvisational, as responsive to new technologies and as innovative as are the young members of the iPod and Facebook generation. In Crisis on Campus, we have an iconoclastic, necessary catalyst for a national debate long overdue.

Author : Nicola Gennaioli
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691182507
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Crisis of Beliefs written by Nicola Gennaioli and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How investor expectations move markets and the economy The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 caught markets and regulators by surprise. Although the government rushed to rescue other financial institutions from a similar fate after Lehman, it could not prevent the deepest recession in postwar history. A Crisis of Beliefs makes us rethink the financial crisis and the nature of economic risk. In this authoritative and comprehensive book, two of today’s most insightful economists reveal how our beliefs shape financial markets, lead to expansions of credit and leverage, and expose the economy to major risks. Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer carefully walk readers through the unraveling of Lehman Brothers and the ensuing meltdown of the US financial system, and then present new evidence to illustrate the destabilizing role played by the beliefs of home buyers, investors, and regulators. Using the latest research in psychology and behavioral economics, they present a new theory of belief formation that explains why the financial crisis came as such a shock to so many people—and how financial and economic instability persist. A must-read for anyone seeking insights into financial markets, A Crisis of Beliefs shows how even the smartest market participants and regulators did not fully appreciate the extent of economic risk, and offers a new framework for understanding today’s unpredictable financial waters.

Author : John W. Sommer
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 141281636X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Academy in Crisis written by John W. Sommer and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assembling a methodical examination of government's pervasive involvement in higher education and academic research, The Academy in Crisis vividly shows that the real beneficiaries are middle- and upper-income students and the educational establishment itself, who exploit the rest of society, especially the poor. In a stimulating and innovative analysis, the book further traces the symptoms of academic decay to the perverse incentives facing those within the modern bureaucracies of higher education. The trashing of American higher education has become a growth sector in the intellectual marketplace. However, The Academy in Crisis shows that the problems run deeper than nostalgia for "the good old days." With government determining the contours of higher education, meaningful reform will never be successful until battle is waged with the resulting government-university complex.

Author : E. Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crisis in the Kindergarten written by E. Miller and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John W. Sommer
Publisher : Transaction Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781560008019
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Academy in Crisis written by John W. Sommer and published by Transaction Pub. This book was released on 1995 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assembling a methodical examination of government's pervasive involvement in higher education and academic research, The Academy in Crisis vividly shows that the real beneficiaries are middle- and upper-income students and the educational establishment itself, who exploit the rest of society, especially the poor. In a stimulating and innovative analysis, the book further traces the symptoms of academic decay to the perverse incentives facing those within the modern bureaucracies of higher education. The trashing of American higher education has become a growth sector in the intellectual marketplace. However, The Academy in Crisis shows that the problems run deeper than nostalgia for "the good old days." With government determining the contours of higher education, meaningful reform will never be successful until battle is waged with the resulting government-university complex.