Two Cheers for Higher Education (eBook)
504 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18489-0 (ISBN)
Steven Brint is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside, where he directs the Colleges & Universities 2000 Project. His books include Schools and Societies, In an Age of Experts, and The Diverted Dream, and he has written for the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Washington Post.
A leading expert challenges the prevailing gloomy outlook on higher education with solid evidence of its successesCrushing student debt, rapidly eroding state funding, faculty embroiled in speech controversies, a higher-education market disrupted by online competition-today's headlines suggest that universities' power to advance knowledge and shape American society is rapidly declining. But Steven Brint, a renowned analyst of academic institutions, has tracked numerous trends demonstrating their vitality. After a recent period that witnessed soaring student enrollment and ample research funding, universities, he argues, are in a better position than ever before.Focusing on the years 1980-2015, Brint details the trajectory of American universities, which was influenced by evolving standards of disciplinary professionalism, market-driven partnerships (especially with scientific and technological innovators outside the academy), and the goal of social inclusion. Conflicts arose: academic entrepreneurs, for example, flouted their campus responsibilities, and departments faced backlash over the hiring of scholars with nontraditional research agendas. Nevertheless, educators' commitments to technological innovation and social diversity prevailed and created a new dynamism.Brint documents these successes along with the challenges that result from rapid change. Today, knowledge-driven industries generate almost half of U.S. GDP, but divisions by educational level split the American political order. Students flock increasingly to fields connected to the power centers of American life and steer away from the liberal arts. And opportunities for economic mobility are expanding even as academic expectations decline.In describing how universities can meet such challenges head on, especially in improving classroom learning, Brint offers not only a clear-eyed perspective on the current state of American higher education but also a pragmatically optimistic vision for the future.
Steven Brint is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside, where he directs the Colleges & Universities 2000 Project. His books include Schools and Societies, In an Age of Experts, and The Diverted Dream, and he has written for the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Washington Post.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 8.1.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The William G. Bowen Series | The William G. Bowen Series |
| Zusatzinfo | 21 b/w illus., 21 tables |
| Verlagsort | Princeton |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Schlagworte | Academe • Academic achievement • academic degree • academic department • academic freedom • academic innovationism • academic professionalism • academic research • Academic tenure • Affirmative Action • alumnus • American higher education • American institutional landscape • American Life • American Society • american universities • Arizona State University • Association of American Universities • Bachelor's degree • Budget • Calculation • campus culture • Capitalism • Career • Classroom • Classroom learning • Cognitive Capacity • Cognitive skill • Collaboration • college access • College Board • college completion • college for all • college graduation • Colleges • College teachers • Columbia University • community college • competitiveness • Consultant • contemporary universities • costs • credential • critical literature • critical thinking • Curriculum • debt • Democratization • disciplinary advance • disciplinary professionalism • Distance Education • Diversity • doctorate • Doctor of Philosophy • Economic Development • Economic Growth • Economic mobility • Economics • economist • Education • educational revolution • Educational technology • elite college • Emerging Technologies • Employment • Entrepreneurship • Equity • ethnic minority • Faculty (academic staff) • Federal Government • fifty states • First professional degree • formal knowledge • For-profit higher education in the United States • Funding • Governance • Grading (education) • Graduate school • Graduation • growth • Harvard University • higher education • Higher Education Research Institute • Human Capital • income • income distribution • Institution • James E. Rosenbaum • Knowledge • learning • Learning Environments • Lecture • LGBTQ community • Liberal arts education • Low-Income Students • Major (academic) • managerial positions • marginalized groups • market logic • master's degree • middle-class students • million-dollar-plus donors • National Science Foundation • of education • online alternatives • online competition • outside world • Partnerships • patrons • permissible speech • philanthropy • Politician • post-industrial society • Private School • private sector • private university • Profession • Professional association • Professionalism • professionalized occupation • professional standards • Professor • Publication • Public discourse • Public institution (United States) • Public Policy • Public university • racial minority • Requirement • Research • Research and Development • Resource Constraints • salary • Scholarship • Scientist • Secondary School • selectivity • Seminar • social advantages • social diversity • Social Inclusion • Social Science • Sociology • Stanford University • startup company • state disinvestment • Student • student loan • Students' union • Subsidy • Teacher • Technological Innovation • Technology • Technology Transfer • Tuition payments • Underachievement • undergraduate education • Universities • University • university administration • University of California • University of California, Berkeley • U.S. higher education • utilitarian purposes • Venture Capital • Wealth • Web of science • year |
| ISBN-10 | 0-691-18489-5 / 0691184895 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-18489-0 / 9780691184890 |
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