Toward A More Perfect University

Author : Jonathan R. Cole
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610392663
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward a More Perfect University written by Jonathan R. Cole and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education has been disrupted dramatically by culture, technology and economics. The only certainty about the universities of the future is that they will not thrive if left unchanged. Jonathan Cole, John Mitchell Mason Professor at Columbia University, and its former provost, is one of the country's leading academic researchers into higher education. A fierce champion of the merits and benefits of the great American research university, Cole identifies the potential fault-lines that threaten the future of universities and the strategic changes that successful colleges will have to make in order to preserve their intellectual relevance, economic viability and social mission. In turn he examines: Admissions policies; Examinations; Cost; Undergraduate education; The role of the humanities The place for professional schools; Research campuses of the future; Sports; Leadership and governance; The intellectual and legal threats to academic freedom. Using his deep knowledge of the history and traditions that underpin US higher education, Cole separates the essential from the fashionable. Higher education is a vital national resource, and an economic proving ground. It is the bedrock of American business and society and it must adapt in order to remain globally competitive and intellectually valuable. The culture of the great American universities reflects the moral and social foundations of the republic itself: they are a litmus test of values and philosophies, and their future affects everyone.

Author : Jonathan R. Cole
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 1610392655
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward a More Perfect University written by Jonathan R. Cole and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jonathan R. Cole, former provost and current University Professor at Columbia University, addresses some of the biggest challenges facing the modern American university: developing effective admission policies; creating the most meaningful examinations; dealing with rising costs; making undergraduate education central to the university's mission; exploring the role of the humanities; facilitating new discoveries and innovation; determining the place for professional schools; developing the research campuses of the future; assessing the role of sports; designing leadership and governance; and combating intellectual and legal threats to academic freedom."--Publisher description.

Author : Herbert J. Storing
Publisher : American Enterprise Institute
ISBN 13 : 9780844738406
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward a More Perfect Union written by Herbert J. Storing and published by American Enterprise Institute. This book was released on 1995 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this definitive collection, the writings of Herbert J. Storing have been assembled into six categories: the Founding Fathers and their legacy; race relations in America; rights and the public interest; bureaucracy and big government; statesmanship and the presidency; and liberal education. With profound understanding and incisive prose, Herbert J. Storing elucidates the nature and enduring importance of America's deepest political principles. His work is presented here with the thoughtful care and organization of one of his students - Joseph M. Bessette.

Author : Neil L. York
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438424671
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward A More Perfect Union written by Neil L. York and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1988-12-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toward a More Perfect Union is the last of a three-volume series examining the Constitution—as it was drafted and ratified, and the uses made of it over the past two hundred years. Each volume includes essays first presented at conferences on the Bicentennial of the Constitution held at Brigham Young University in 1985, 1986, and 1987, and several additional essays written especially for these anthologies.

Author : Harry Lewis
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 1586485016
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Excellence Without a Soul written by Harry Lewis and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2007-08-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Harvard professor and former Dean of Harvard College offers his provocative analysis of how America's great universities are failing students and the nation

Author : Jonathan R. Cole
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458774074
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great American University written by Jonathan R. Cole and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans and people throughout the world have become increasingly dependent on America's great research universities. Yet few of us truly understand to what we owe this extraordinary excellence or what we must do to keep it. From the development of technologies like the laser, the global positioning system, the MRI, radar, and even Viagra, to predicting weather patterns, American research universities are one of our most vital sources of economic growth and social welfare. They have flourished because of a system that has invested public tax dollars in their work and, more importantly, granted substantial autonomy to funding agencies and the universities. This system is now under attack, the university's preeminence endangered by the USA PATRIOT Act and other conservative policies. This revelatory and alarming book will show how this vital institution is at risk of tragically losing its dominant status and why a threat to the university is a threat to the health and wealth of our nation.

Author : Leon R. Kass
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439105685
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward a More Natural Science written by Leon R. Kass and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kass shows how the promise and the peril of our time are inextricably linked with the promise and the peril of modern science. The relation between the pursuit of knowledge and the conduct of life—between science and ethics, each broadly conceived—has in recent years been greatly complicated by developments in the science of life. This book examines the ethical questions involved in prenatal screening, in vitro fertilization, artificial life forms, and medical care, and discusses the role of human beings in nature.

Author : Matthew C. Makel
Publisher : American Psychological Association (APA)
ISBN 13 : 9781433827549
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward a More Perfect Psychology written by Matthew C. Makel and published by American Psychological Association (APA). This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents strategies for not just maximizing the quality and impact of one's own research, but also evaluating and responding to the research of others.

Author : Wendy Kopp
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 0786724005
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Day, All Children... written by Wendy Kopp and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From her dorm room at Princeton University, twenty-one-year-old college senior Wendy Kopp decided to launch a movement to improve public education in America. In One Day, All Children... , she shares the remarkable story of Teach For America, a non-profit organization that sends outstanding college graduates to teach for two years in the most under-resourced urban and rural public schools in America. The astonishing success of the program has proven it possible for children in low-income areas to attain the same level of academic achievement as children in more privileged areas and more privileged schools. One Day, All Children… is not just a personal memoir. It's a blueprint for the new civil rights movement--a movement that demands educational access and opportunity for all American children.

Author : John P. O’Callaghan
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268158142
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomist Realism and the Linguistic Turn written by John P. O’Callaghan and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers will be richly rewarded by reading John O’Callaghan’s new book, Thomistic Realism and the Linguistic Turn. Based on his broad knowledge of Aristotle and Aquinas, O’Callaghan provides not only an excellent treatment of Aquinas’s epistemology but also a superb demonstration of just how Aquinas might contribute to contemporary debates. Traditionally, the camps of realism and idealism fiercely engaged one another in the field of epistemology. Thomists participated in confronting idealism from their unique realist position. Post-Wittgenstein, the conflict has been dominated by a form of epistemology that grounds all knowledge in linguistic practice. Since Thomists work in a textual and historical mode, their response to the technical approach of the analytic philosophy in which most of the linguistic epistemologists write has been slow in coming. O’Callaghan expertly closes that gap by successfully bringing together these fields.