What is the future of higher education? / Roman Espejo, book editor.
Contributor(s): Espejo, Roman [editor.] | Gale Group.
Series: Gale virtual reference library.At issueEducation: Publisher: Farmington Hills, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (131 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780737772012; 9780737772029; 9780737776652.Subject(s): Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives | Universities and colleges -- United StatesAdditional physical formats: Print version:: What is the future of higher education?.DDC classification: 378.00973 Online resources: Aquí puedes acceder a este libro en forma virtual| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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.
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