The future of higher education
Subtitle: rhetoric, reality, and the risks of the market
By: by Frank Newman, Lara Couturier, and Jamie Scurry.
Contributors: Couturier, Lara.; Scurry, Jamie.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2004
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States; Education, Higher -- Economic aspects -- United States; Educational change -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Higher education in the grip of transforming change; title: The new competition; title: The coming of the market; title: The growing gap between public needs and the reality of higher education; title: The public, political leaders, and the academy view higher education; title: Creating a thoughtful market; title: Autonomy, accountability, and the new compact; title: Who is responsible for student learning?; title: Expanding access and succeeding; title: Competitive grants for teaching and institutional service; title: College and university strategies for the new era; title: A decade of opportunity.