American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges
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Editor: Philip G. AltbachEditor: Robert O. Berdahl
Editor: Patricia J. Gumport
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-02-25
ISBN: 0801880351
Number of pages: 568
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Reviews of American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges
Book Review: Review Used for UW Issues in Higher Ed Class
Summary: 5 Stars
Book Review
With the huge technological and societal changes that higher education face today, it seemed a natural choice to review American Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century: Social, Political and Economic Challenges. This book was edited by Philip G. Altbach, Robert O. Berdahl, and Patricia J. Gumport. It was copyrighted in 1999 by The Johns Hopkins University Press from Baltimore, MD. Each chapter is authored by a subject matter expert such as Roger Geiger, TR Mc Connell and Ami Zusman to name a few.
Summary of Contents
American Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century. Social, Political and Economic Challenges addresses key issues facing and testing higher education institutions now and in the future. It explores the impact society has on technology which causes a domino effect touching on political and educational challenges. These challenges promise to be stronger than any issues faced in the history of education. This includes many contributors to the educational process including the new breed of student.
"The student role within American higher education and society is a complex and requires a new epistemology, or way of thinking about that role, which enhances our understanding" (Altbach, Berdahl, and Gumport, 1999). The book goes on to note the importance of understanding the roles and relationship between students, educational institutions, and today's society. Naturally, this ultimately drives the direction and future goals of higher education.
Other entities such as the federal and state governments and business partners will also play a role in determining needs that will drive the direction higher education will take in the future.
These issues, along with a myriad of other areas, promise higher education an interesting and rather demanding and rigorous future.
Organizational Structure
This book was very well organized which supported easy understanding and a solid learning experience. It was broken into four parts, which included:
? Part 1, The Setting: This section discussed background and support information for higher education including a look at the structure, history and key issues facing higher education today.
? Part 2, External Forces: Support partners in higher education are examined in this section. These partners include entities such as the federal government, individual states, legal forces and external business partners.
? Part 3, The Academic Community: Controversial and timely issues are discussed in this section including the challenge of colleges building connects within the communities they support.
? Part 4, Central Issues for the Twenty-first Century: This section discussed some of the hottest topics faced by colleges today including funding, technology, and diversity.
The breakout of these sections clearly helped the reader easily realize some of the most important areas that we need to focus on being associated with higher education now and how society and technology takes us into the future. This is especially important since today's educational setting challenging the traditional settings and looking to enrich and enhance them. In addition, these sections help us to understand the importance of extending the boundaries of teaching (i.e. from the traditional classroom to new technology settings.)
Personal Reaction and Evaluation
"If a college or university is effectively to define its goals and select or invent the means of attaining them, it must have a high degree of substantive autonomy" (Altbach, Berdahl, and Gumport, 1999). This book raised a number of very important viewpoints and issues that higher education face in the future. In order to successfully meet the needs of society, I believe one of the most important points that the book makes is the vital importance of universities maintaining autonomy. Higher education needs to be able to move forward in offering programs that meet the knowledge gaps and educational demands that a rapidly changing technological society promises to offer in the future. Higher education must be able to turn on a dime in order to support this challenge. In this, as well as other avenues, this book was able to bring across, in my opinion, the "must-dos" for higher education in the future. The authors identify "change" as the most complex "must-do." However, it is also the most challenging and, according to the authors dependent on society and technology advances.
Conclusion
In summary, American Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century. Social, Political and Economical Challenges is an excellent source for educators in determining the direction to set in the future. It helped me to identify goals that must be achieved and areas that must be recognized as challenges face us now and for coming generations of students.
References
Altbach, Philip G., Berdahl, Robert O., and Gumport, (1999). American Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century. Social, Political, and Economic Challenges. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Summary of American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges
This new edition of American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century explores current issues of central importance to the academy: leadership, accountability, access, finance, technology, academic freedom, the canon, governance, and race. Chapters also deal with key constituencies -- students and faculty -- in the context of a changing academic environment.
While the contributors agree with critics who argue for ongoing reassessment of public institutions, they provide a more balanced perspective. They take issue with the "crisis" culture that has emerged among critics of current higher education practices, pointing out that higher education has faced challenges through its history.
By illuminating the complex interplay between institutions and external forces, the book provides a key to guide the endeavors of faculty, students, and administrative leaders. Fully revised and updated, the second edition includes a new chapter on higher education markets. Contributors include Philip G. Altbach, Michael J. Bastedo, Robert O. Berdahl, Robert Birnbaum, Mitchell J. Chang, Marc Chun, Melanie E. Corrigan, Eric L. Dey, Judith S. Eaton, Peter D. Eckel, Roger L. Geiger, Lawrence E. Gladieux, Patricia J. Gumport, Fred. F. Harcleroad, Sylvia Hurtado, D. Bruce Johnstone, Jacqueline E. King, Kofi Lomotey, Aims C. McGuinness Jr., Michael A. Olivas, Robert M. O'Neil, Gary Rhoades, Frank A. Schmidtlein, Sheila Slaughter, and Ami Zusman.
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