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Umfang: 387 Seiten.

ISBN: 978-0-226-82019-4 , 978-0-226-82022-4

Inhalt: "America's constant push to make its colleges and universities more efficient and more accountable is not a new phenomenon. Indeed, in Other People's Colleges, Ethan Ris argues that the reform impulse is baked into American higher education. For well over one hundred years, elite reformers have called for sweeping changes in the sector and raised existential questions about its sustainability. Colleges and universities have responded with a combination of resistance and acquiescence. The end result is a sector that has learned to accept top-down reform as part of its existence. 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. 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 their efforts fell short, despite their wealth and power, 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 are again demanding efficiency, accountability, and utility from American higher education. But top-down design is not destiny. Today's reform agenda in higher education should not be viewed as a new existential threat. It is a longstanding fact of life to be assimilated, diverted, or subverted on an ongoing basis"--

Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction -- The ethos of reform. The academic engineers; Toward system -- The program of reform. The higher education pyramid; "The practical life"; Separate and unequal -- The decline of reform. The counter-reformation; Organized resistance; A new consensus and a new ethos -- Conclusion: four legacies

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-226-82023-1

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Höheres Bildungswesen ; Bildungsreform ; History

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Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (368 p.)

ISBN: 9780226820231

Inhalt: 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

Anmerkung: Frontmatter , Contents , Introduction , Part one: the ethos of reform , 1 The Academic Engineers , 2 Toward System , Part two: the program of reform , 3 The Higher Education Pyramid , 4 “The Practical Life” , 5 Separate and Unequal , Part three: the decline of reform , 6 The Counter- Reformation , 7 Organized Resistance , 8 A New Consensus and a New Ethos , Conclusion: Four Legacies , Acknowledgments , Appendix: A Partial List of the Academic Engineers , Notes , Index , In English

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780226820194

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als print ISBN 9780226820194

Sprache: Englisch

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Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (387 Seiten).

ISBN: 978-0-226-82023-1

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-0-226-82019-4

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-0-226-82022-4

Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Allgemeines

Schlagwort(e): Electronic books

DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226820231

URL: Chicago scholarship online