The Uncertain Future of American Public Higher Education Student-Centered Strategies for Sustainability /

• Main Author: Johnson, Daniel M. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: School management and organization.; School administration.; Higher education.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Higher Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.

This book addresses the costly non-sustainable policies, programs, practices, and priorities currently driving the tuition crisis in American public higher education. In this era of growing competition among public colleges and universities for more students and higher rankings, their leaders and go...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2.Tuition Crisis: The Cost and Financing of Public Higher Education
• 3. Seat Time Academic Credit: What Does it Really Measure?
• 4. Tenure: Lifetime Employment in a Fast Changing World
• 5. Campuses: Overvalued, Underused, and Very Costly
• 6. Lectures, Textbooks, Academic Calendar, and Administration: An Agenda for Change
• 7. Duplication of Programs: Where Do We Draw the Line?
• 8. Intercollegiate Sports: Challenges to the Academic Mission?
• 9. Presidential Selection, Salaries, and Moral Leadership
• 10. Student Demographics: The Coming Changes and Challenges for Higher Education
• 11. University Governance: Structures, Roles, and Responsibilities
• 12. Accreditation: How it Works and Is it Working?
• 13. Attacking the Problems: Student-Centered Strategies for Governors, Governing Boards, and University Presidents
• 14. Epilogue: Theoretical Perspectives on Change.