The Proper Role Of Higher Education In A Democratic Society

Author : Bowhay, Vincent
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799877469
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Proper Role of Higher Education in a Democratic Society written by Bowhay, Vincent and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American higher education has served to prepare students to be active participants in a democratic society. During a time of great civil upheaval following the tumultuous elections of 2016 and 2020, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, and mass demonstrations following the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, higher education may be the only institution left to be both responsible for and responsive to society at large. Public trust in the federal government is at near-record lows, but confidence in higher education has decreased more than any other U.S. institution since 2015. In a time where public opinion is quickly changing for the better or the worse, higher education must respond to this decline in trust in it as an institution, but also the decline in the belief that a college degree is worth the time and cost. Higher education was founded on the idea that colleges would prepare citizens for a life of public service, but they have quickly changed to a business model that largely puts profits over people. Practitioners of higher education must respond to this lack of trust and the pressures of preparing a 21st century workforce while battling the threats of a pandemic, declining enrollment, budget destabilization, and increased regulation. The Proper Role of Higher Education in a Democratic Society reexamines the purpose of higher education during rapidly changing times, offers practical advice and best practices to reclaim higher education’s most fundamental mission, and argues that if higher education is called to prepare students to serve a government by the people, the people must be prepared to govern effectively. This book provides resources and suggestions for restoring the public faith in higher education by connecting the educational experience with civic engagement outcomes. Diverse perspectives presented in this book challenge traditional notions that civic engagement is handled by one office on a college campus and is only discussed during a presidential election. Covering everything from civic engagement to diversity perspectives, this book is ideal for higher education practitioners and those interested in promoting civic engagement and democratic participation, improving assessment or accreditation standards using a civic engagement perspective, and infusing civic engagement to diversity conversations on campus.

Author : Adrianna Kezar
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119177952
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Higher Education for the Public Good written by Adrianna Kezar and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book explores the various ways that higher education contributes to the realization of significant public ends and examines how leaders can promote and enhance their contribution to the social charter through new policies and best practices. It also shows how other sectors of society, government agencies, foundations, and individuals can partner with institutions of higher education to promote the public good. Higher Education for the Public Good includes contributions from leaders in the field—many of whom participated in dialogues hosted by the National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good. These leaders are responsible for creating successful strategies, programs, and efforts that foster the public’s role in higher education.

Author : Vincent Bowhay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781799877455
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Proper Role of Higher Education in a Democratic Society written by Vincent Bowhay and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book of contributed chapters is for educators who want to improve their understanding of the role higher education can play in developing students who are actively engaged in democratic processes and civic engagement opportunities"--

Author : William G. Tierney
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438484518
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Higher Education for Democracy written by William G. Tierney and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bronze Winner, 2021 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Education Category Democracy and higher education are inextricably linked: universities not only have the ability to be key arbiters of how democracy is advanced, but they also need to reflect democratic values in their practices, objectives, and goals. Framed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ongoing crisis of structural racism, Higher Education for Democracy explores academe's role in advancing democracy by using a cross-national comparison of Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Hong Kong to develop strategies that universities can employ to strengthen democracy and resist fascism. William G. Tierney argues that if academe is to be a progenitor in the advancement of democracy, then we need to consider five areas of change that have been significant across national contexts amid both globalization and neoliberalism: inequality, privatization, the public good, identity, and academic freedom. Taking a comparative approach and drawing on scholarly literature, archival research, and interviews, Higher Education for Democracy aims to understand these changes and their implications and to position higher education in defense of democracy in a globalized economy framed by fascism.

Author : Patrick Blessinger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317695569
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democratizing Higher Education written by Patrick Blessinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher education systems around the world are undergoing fundamental change and reform due to external pressures—including internationalization of higher education, increased international competition for students, less reliance on public funding, and calls to create greater access opportunities for citizens. How are higher education systems evolving structurally as a result of these and other pressures? In light of these changes, how can higher education be a positive force for democratizing societies? This book examines the emerging trends taking place in higher education systems around the world, focusing on the most salient political and social forces that underlie these trends. Each chapter provides a case study of a country, exploring its cultural and political history, the political and social developments that have affected its higher education system, and the result of these changes on the higher education system. In a fast-changing, knowledge-intensive, democratic society, Democratizing Higher Education explores how higher education systems can be developed to provide access, affordability, participation, and quality life-long learning for all.

Author : John Saltmarsh
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439905088
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "To Serve a Larger Purpose" written by John Saltmarsh and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-20 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To Serve a Larger Purpose" calls for the reclamation of the original democratic purposes of civic engagement and examines the requisite transformation of higher education required to achieve it. The contributors to this timely and relevant volume effectively highlight the current practice of civic engagement and point to the institutional change needed to realize its democratic ideals. Using multiple perspectives, "To Serve a Larger Purpose" explores the democratic processes and purposes that reorient civic engagement to what the editors call "democratic engagement." The norms of democratic engagement are determined by values such as inclusiveness, collaboration, participation, task sharing, and reciprocity in public problem solving and an equality of respect for the knowledge and experience that everyone contributes to education, knowledge generation, and community building. This book shrewdly rethinks the culture of higher education.

Author : United States. President's Commission on Higher Education
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Higher Education for American Democracy written by United States. President's Commission on Higher Education and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen J. Rosow
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739131729
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming Higher Education written by Stephen J. Rosow and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The university is being transformed and can be transformed. This doubleness informs this book. 'Transforming' in 'transforming higher education' can be read as adjective, suggesting that higher education is being transformed by the social and political situation in which it is enmeshed. 'Transforming' can also be read as a gerund, implying the critical activity of changing the university, as signaling a creative and political act of radical possibility. The essays in this book address the transformation of higher education and the transformative possibilities of its current conditions. Only by viewing the university as a historical construction can we assess the dangers and opportunities of the new conditions of higher education, and chart a reasonable course for the future. The essays in this book are critical of recent developments in universities and higher education. Most of us come from public universities, and all remain committed to a democratic higher education that we see threatened by recent developments. There is a danger that the combination of economic crisis, market ideology, and global pressures will continue to structure the debate about higher education in ways that freeze out the transformative and politically critical possibilities of the university. Part I of the book examines the historical transformation of the university as it has changed into its current form. Part II examines both the transformation of the university into a neoliberal institution and makes the case for the more political and radical idea of transforming the university in opposition to how it has been transformed in recent years. Part III offers a number of studies aimed at illuminating possibilities for transforming the university in a more progressive, democratic direction.

Author : David W. Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agent of Democracy written by David W. Brown and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The professional mind-set prevailing in higher education today often ignores the "common goods" that only democratic self-rule can provide. Why? Some say the professional mind-set is profoundly antidemocratic, especially when it presumes that specialized knowledge and experience is a sufficient substitute for a democratic process of participating equals. Although there are currently many higher education experiments in which the public does set the agenda for research and actually conducts much of the work, there are still too many projects ostensibly done for the public with nothing to be done by the public. How, then, can the academy, with such a mind-set and its preoccupation with hustling prospective students and chasing after academic luminaries, be of any help in renewing democratic practices? In Agent of Democracy: Higher Education and the HEX Journey, editors David W. Brown and Deborah Witte, a Kettering Foundation program officer, explore the linkages that have been forged between higher education and a "healthy democracy." This volume celebrates and expands on the journal Higher Education Exchange, an annual publication of the Kettering Foundation edited by Brown and Witte. For more than 10 years, HEX has published case studies, analysis, news, and ideas about efforts within higher education to develop more democratic societies. Agent of Democracy features essays by 10 thoughtful theorists and practitioners whose work regularly appears in the Higher Education Exchange. Their work is a contribution to the resurgent movement bent on strengthening higher education. Chapters in this volume include: "The Engaged University: A Tale of Two Generations," Peter Levine "The Limits of Public Work: A Critical Reflection on the 'Engaged University'," Mary Stanley "Should Higher Education Have a Civic Mission?," R. Claire Snyder "Public Work: Civic Populism versus Technocracy in Higher Education," Harry C. Boyte "Public Work at Colgate: An Interview with Adam Weinberg" "Reconstructing a Democratic Tradition of Public Scholarship in the Land-Grant System," Scott Peters "A Portrait of a University as a Young Citizen," Jeremy Cohen "The Makings of a Public and the Role of the Academy," Noëlle McAfee "The New England Center for Civic Live--A Decade of Making a Difference," Douglas F. Challenger "Democracy's Megachallenges Revisited," David Mathews About the Kettering Foundation The Kettering Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit operating foundation rooted in the American tradition of cooperative research. Kettering's primary research question is: What does it take to make democracy work as it should? Kettering's research is distinctive because it is conducted from the perspective of citizens and focuses on what people can do collectively to address problems affecting their lives, their communities, and their nation. For more information about Kettering research and publications, see the Kettering Foundation's website at www.kettering.org.

Author : James Arthur
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134312164
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizenship and Higher Education written by James Arthur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-03-16 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the obligations of the university to society and its communities? What are the virtues of university education? What are the university's ethical responsibilities to its students? The role of citizenship and civic responsibility in higher education is a highly contested yet crucial element of any consideration of the role of university in society. This book offers thoughtful insights into this role, outlining the intellectual and practical tensions and pressures which come to bear upon higher education institutions. Wide ranging in scope, it offers perspectives from British, European, Canadian and North American educational environments. Citizenship and Higher Education will prove stimulating reading for anyone concerned with the ethics of education and the university's place in society - including educationalists, researchers, sociologists and policy-makers.