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Crisis on campus : a bold plan for reforming our colleges and universities

Author: Mark C Taylor
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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A provocative look at the troubled present state of American higher education and a passionately argued and learned manifesto for its future. Educator Mark C. Taylor expands on the ideas in his hugely controversial 2009 New York Times op-ed. His suggestions for the ivory tower are both thought-provoking and rigorous: End tenure. Restructure departments to encourage greater cooperation among existing disciplines.  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mark C Taylor
ISBN: 9780307593290 0307593290
OCLC Number: 501320939
Notes: "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Description: 240 p. ; 20 cm.
Contents: Reprogramming the future --
Beginning of the end --
Back to the future --
Emerging network culture --
Education bubble --
Networking knowledge --
Walls to webs --
New skills for a changing workforce --
Class of 2020.
Responsibility: Mark C. Taylor.

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A provocative look at the troubled present state of American higher education and a passionately argued and learned manifesto for its future. Educator Mark C. Taylor expands on the ideas in his hugely controversial 2009 New York Times op-ed. His suggestions for the ivory tower are both thought-provoking and rigorous: End tenure. Restructure departments to encourage greater cooperation among existing disciplines. Emphasize teaching rather than increasingly rarefied research. And bring that teaching to new domains, using emergent networks to connect students worldwide. Taylor shows us the consequences of decades of organizational neglect: students chafing under the restrictions of traditional higher education, recent graduates with massive debts and unpromising jobs, anxious parents anticipating inflated future tuitions. Accommodating the students of today and anticipating those of tomorrow, attuned to schools' financial woes and the skyrocketing cost of education, Taylor imagines a new system, improvisational, responsive and innovative.--From publisher description.

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