A University for the 21st CenturyUniversity of Michigan Press, 30/04/2009 - 376 من الصفحات From the former president of one of America's leading universities comes a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing higher education in America as we enter the twenty-first century. In A University for the Twenty-first Century, James J. Duderstadt discusses the array of powerful economic, social, and technological forces that are driving the rapid and profound change in American social institutions and universities in particular. Change has always characterized the university as it has sought to preserve and propagate the intellectual achievements, the cultures, and the values of our civilization. However, the capacity of the university to change, through a process characterized by reflection, reaction, and consensus, simply may not be sufficient to allow the university to control its own destiny. Not only will social and technical change be a challenge to the American university, Duderstadt says, it will be the watchword for the years ahead. And with change will come unprecedented opportunities for those universities with the vision, the wisdom, and the courage to lead in the twenty-first century. The real question raised by this book is not whether higher education will be transformed, but rather how . . . and by whom. James J. Duderstadt is President Emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering, University of Michigan. |
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Reacting to a Changing World | 36 |
Parti Signs of Change | 71 |
Education | 73 |
Research and Scholarship | 110 |
Service to Society | 132 |
The Academy | 147 |
Diversity | 192 |
Technology | 220 |
Governance and Leadership | 239 |
The Challenge oj Change 12 Transforming the University | 261 |
The Future of the Higher Education Enterprise | 290 |
Evolution or Revolution | 319 |
Notes | 335 |
Index 335 | 355 |
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الصفحة 78 - He apprehends the great outlines of knowledge, the principles on which it rests, the scale of its parts, its lights and its shades, its great points and its little, as he otherwise cannot apprehend them. Hence it is that his education is called "liberal.
الصفحة 112 - Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown.
الصفحة 41 - These institutions offer a full range of baccalaureate programs, are committed to graduate education through the doctorate, and give high priority to research.
الصفحة 152 - Tenure is a means to certain ends; specifically, (1) freedom of teaching and research and of extra'mural activities, and (2) a sufficient degree of economic security to make the profession attractive to men and women of ability.
الصفحة 329 - ... highly partitioned system of education will blend increasingly into a seamless web, in which primary and secondary education; undergraduate, graduate, and professional education; on-the-job training and continuing education; and lifelong enrichment become a continuum. Interactive and collaborative: Already we see new forms of pedagogy: asynchronous (anytime, anyplace) learning that utilizes emerging information technology to break the constraints of time and space, making learning opportunities...
الصفحة 112 - Services, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Department of Agriculture.
الصفحة 237 - the information ecosystem is a ferociously Darwinian place that produces endless mutations and quickly weeds out those no longer able to adapt and compete. The real challenge is not the technology, but rather imagining and creating digitally mediated environments for the kinds of lives that we will want to lead...