Author: Clyde Bowman FurstPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Educational surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Educational Surveys: An Address Before the Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the Middle States and Maryland, November 30, 1917
Author: Clyde Bowman FurstPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Educational surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Educational Survey of Elyria, Ohio
Author: Benjamin Francis AndrewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Bulletin - Bureau of Education
Author: United States. Bureau of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Record of Current Educational Publications
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Monthly Record of Current Educational Publications
Author: Bulletin
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
Statistics of Land-grant Colleges and Universities
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 1450
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Other People's Colleges
Author: Ethan W. RisPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226820238
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
An illuminating history of the reform agenda in higher education. For well over one hundred years, people have been attempting to make American colleges and universities more efficient and more accountable. Indeed, Ethan Ris argues in Other People’s Colleges, the reform impulse is baked into American higher education, the result of generations of elite reformers who have called for sweeping changes in the sector and raised existential questions about its sustainability. When that reform is beneficial, offering major rewards for minor changes, colleges and universities know how to assimilate it. When it is hostile, attacking autonomy or values, they know how to resist it. The result is a sector that has learned to accept top-down reform as part of its existence. In the early twentieth century, the “academic engineers,” a cadre of elite, external reformers from foundations, businesses, and government, worked to reshape and reorganize the vast base of the higher education pyramid. Their reform efforts were largely directed at the lower tiers of higher education, but those efforts fell short, despite the wealth and power of their backers, leaving a legacy of successful resistance that affects every college and university in the United States. Today, another coalition of business leaders, philanthropists, and politicians is again demanding efficiency, accountability, and utility from American higher education. But, as Ris argues, top-down design is not destiny. Drawing on extensive and original archival research, Other People’s Colleges offers an account of higher education that sheds light on today’s reform agenda.