TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bowen,William G.
AU  - McPherson,Michael
TI  - Lesson Plan: An Agenda for Change in American Higher Education 
T2  - The William G. Bowen Series
SN  - 9780691172101
U1  - 378.73 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Aims and objectives
KW  - United States
KW  - EDUCATION / Higher
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - ADAPT
KW  - Academic degree
KW  - Academic tenure
KW  - Adaptive learning
KW  - Adjunct professor
KW  - Advanced Training
KW  - Affirmative action
KW  - Agenda for Change
KW  - Attendance
KW  - Bachelor's degree
KW  - Career
KW  - Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education
KW  - Classroom
KW  - Claudia Goldin
KW  - College Board
KW  - Community college
KW  - Cooper Union
KW  - Cost reduction
KW  - Coursera
KW  - Credential
KW  - Critical infrastructure
KW  - Critical thinking
KW  - David Autor
KW  - Debt
KW  - Disadvantage
KW  - Dividend
KW  - Doctor of Philosophy
KW  - Economic inequality
KW  - Economics
KW  - Economist
KW  - Education in Virginia
KW  - Education
KW  - Educational attainment
KW  - Educational institution
KW  - Effectiveness
KW  - Emerging technologies
KW  - Expense
KW  - Faculty (academic staff)
KW  - Faculty (division)
KW  - For-profit higher education in the United States
KW  - Funding
KW  - Graduate school
KW  - Higher education
KW  - Human capital
KW  - Impose
KW  - Income distribution
KW  - Income
KW  - Inside Higher Ed
KW  - Institute of Education Sciences
KW  - Institution
KW  - Kevin Carey
KW  - Lawrence F. Katz
KW  - Lawrence S. Bacow
KW  - Learning
KW  - Liberal education
KW  - Lumina Foundation
KW  - Macalester College
KW  - Mindset
KW  - National Bureau of Economic Research
KW  - National Center for Education Statistics
KW  - Obstacle
KW  - Of Education
KW  - Opportunity cost
KW  - Payment
KW  - Pell Grant
KW  - Pricing
KW  - Private school
KW  - Private university
KW  - Professional certification
KW  - Public institution (United States)
KW  - Public university
KW  - Quartile
KW  - Rate of return
KW  - Reader (academic rank)
KW  - Rebecca Blank
KW  - Retention Bonus
KW  - Richard Kahlenberg
KW  - SAT
KW  - Sarah E. Turner
KW  - Scholarship
KW  - Secondary school
KW  - Skill
KW  - Social mobility
KW  - Socioeconomic status
KW  - Student debt
KW  - Student loan
KW  - Student number
KW  - Student
KW  - Subsidy
KW  - Sweet Briar College
KW  - Tax
KW  - Teaching method
KW  - Technology
KW  - Trade-off
KW  - Tuition payments
KW  - Undergraduate education
KW  - University System of Maryland
KW  - University
KW  - William G. Bowen
KW  - Year
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface and Acknowledgments --; PART I: Prelude --; PART II: Pressing National Needs --; Achieving Higher Levels of Educational Attainment --; Raising College Completion Rates in the United States --; Reducing Time- to- Degree --; Reducing Disparities in Outcomes by Socioeconomic Status and Race or Ethnicity --; Achieving Affordability --; Strengthening Leadership Capacities --; PART III: An Agenda for Change --; Governmental Funding— Apart from Student Aid --; Payments by Individuals— and Student Aid (Including Loans) --; Increasing Efficiency --; Putting High-Profile College Sports in Proper Perspective --; Rationalizing Staffing: Supporting the Development of a “Teaching Corps” --; Improving Teaching through Technology: Adaptive Learning --; Enabling Stronger Leadership --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - American higher education faces some serious problems—but they are not the ones most people think. In this brief and accessible book, two leading experts show that many so-called crises—from the idea that typical students are drowning in debt to the belief that tuition increases are being driven by administrative bloat—are exaggerated or simply false. At the same time, many real problems—from the high dropout rate to inefficient faculty staffing—have received far too little attention. In response, William G. Bowen and Michael S. McPherson provide a frank assessment of the biggest challenges confronting higher education and propose a bold agenda for reengineering essential elements of the system to meet them. The result promises to help shape the debate about higher education for years to come.Lesson Plan shows that, for all of its accomplishments, higher education today is falling short when it comes to vital national needs. Too many undergraduates are dropping out or taking too long to graduate; minorities and the poor fare worse than their peers, reinforcing inequality; and college is unaffordable for too many. But these problems could be greatly reduced by making significant changes, including targeting federal and state funding more efficiently; allocating less money for "merit aid" and more to match financial need; creating a respected “teaching corps” that would include nontenure faculty; improving basic courses in fields such as math by combining adaptive learning and face-to-face teaching; strengthening leadership; and encouraging more risk taking.It won't be easy for faculty, administrators, trustees, and legislators to make such sweeping changes, but only by doing so will they make it possible for our colleges and universities to meet the nation’s demands tomorrow and into the future
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400881369?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400881369
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400881369/original
ER  -