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Zemsky, Robert, (1940-)

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Checklist for change : = making American higher education a sustainable enterprise /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Checklist for change :/ Robert Zemsky.
Reminder of title:	making American higher education a sustainable enterprise /
Author:	Zemsky, Robert,
Published:	New Brunswick, New Jersey :Rutgers University Press, : 2013.,
Description:	x, 243 p. :ill ;24 cm.
Subject:	Education, Higher - United States. -
ISBN:	9780813561349 (hbk.) :

Checklist for change : = making American higher education a sustainable enterprise /
Zemsky, Robert,1940-

Checklist for change :making American higher education a sustainable enterprise /Robert Zemsky. - New Brunswick, New Jersey :Rutgers University Press,2013. - x, 243 p. :ill ;24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Trapped in an Ecclesiastes moment --

Almost every day American higher education is making news with a list of problems that includes the incoherent nature of the curriculum, the resistance of the faculty to change, and the influential role of the federal government both through major investments in student aid and intrusive policies. Checklist for Change not only diagnoses these problems, but also provides constructive recommendations for practical change. Robert Zemsky details the complications that have impeded every credible reform intended to change American higher education. He demythologizes such initiatives as the Morrill Act, the GI Bill, and the Higher Education Act of 1972, shedding new light on their origins and the ways they have shaped higher education in unanticipated and not commonly understood ways. Next, he addresses overly simplistic arguments about the causes of the problems we face and builds a convincing argument that well-intentioned actions have combined to create the current mess for which everyone is to blame. Using provocative case studies, Zemsky describes the reforms being implemented at a few institutions with the hope that these might serve as harbingers of the kinds of change needed: the University of Minnesota at Rochester's compact curriculum in the health sciences only, Whittier College's emphasis on learning outcomes, and the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh's coherent overall curriculum.

ISBN: 9780813561349 (hbk.) :US27.95

LCCN: 2012038526Subjects--Topical Terms:

524332
Education, Higher
--United States.

LC Class. No.: LA227.4 / .Z44 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 378.73

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