What is the future of higher education? /
Roman Espejo, book editor.
- 1 online resource (131 pages).
- Gale virtual reference library At issue. Education .
- At issue. Education. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Experts have diverse predictions for the future of higher education / Janna Anderson, Jan Lauren Boyles, and Lee Rainie -- 2. The online challenge to higher education / William B. Bonvillian and Susan R. Singer -- 3. Equal access to online education will be a challenge / Campaign for the Future of Higher Education -- 4. The future of small private colleges is threatened / Ry Rivard -- 5. For-profit motives threaten the future of higher education / David Francis Mihalyfy -- 6. Economic and racial segregation must be addressed in higher education / Richard D. Kahlenberg -- 7. Community colleges will be an important part of higher education / Rob Jenkins -- 8. Community colleges should be allowed to offer four-year degrees / Robert L. Breuder -- 9. The dropout rate of community colleges is problematic / Bob Rath, Kathryn Rock, and Ashley Laferriere -- 10. Tuition-free higher education must be offered / Richard Eskow -- 11. A proposal: five federal universities / Freddie de Boer -- 12. Accreditation should be reformed in higher education / Lindsey Burke and Stuart M. Butler.
Provides a wide range of opinions on a specific social issue. Offers a variety of perspectives-eyewitness accounts, governmental views, scientific analysis, newspaper and magazine accounts, and many more-to illuminate the issue. Extensive bibliographies and annotated lists of relevant organizations point to sources for further research.
9780737772012 9780737772029 9780737776652
Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.
Universities and colleges--United States.
LA227.4 / .W466 2015
378.00973
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Experts have diverse predictions for the future of higher education / Janna Anderson, Jan Lauren Boyles, and Lee Rainie -- 2. The online challenge to higher education / William B. Bonvillian and Susan R. Singer -- 3. Equal access to online education will be a challenge / Campaign for the Future of Higher Education -- 4. The future of small private colleges is threatened / Ry Rivard -- 5. For-profit motives threaten the future of higher education / David Francis Mihalyfy -- 6. Economic and racial segregation must be addressed in higher education / Richard D. Kahlenberg -- 7. Community colleges will be an important part of higher education / Rob Jenkins -- 8. Community colleges should be allowed to offer four-year degrees / Robert L. Breuder -- 9. The dropout rate of community colleges is problematic / Bob Rath, Kathryn Rock, and Ashley Laferriere -- 10. Tuition-free higher education must be offered / Richard Eskow -- 11. A proposal: five federal universities / Freddie de Boer -- 12. Accreditation should be reformed in higher education / Lindsey Burke and Stuart M. Butler.
Provides a wide range of opinions on a specific social issue. Offers a variety of perspectives-eyewitness accounts, governmental views, scientific analysis, newspaper and magazine accounts, and many more-to illuminate the issue. Extensive bibliographies and annotated lists of relevant organizations point to sources for further research.
9780737772012 9780737772029 9780737776652
Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.
Universities and colleges--United States.
LA227.4 / .W466 2015
378.00973