Good University - What Universities Actually Do and Why It's Time for Radical Change Connell RaewynPevná vazba
Good University - What Universities Actually Do and Why It's Time for Radical Change Connell RaewynPevná vazba In the fall of 2018, 19.9 million US students will attend college. More than four…
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Good University - What Universities Actually Do and Why It's Time for Radical Change Connell RaewynPevná vazba
In the fall of 2018, 19.9 million US students will attend college. More than four thousand colleges and universities serve these students, employing hundreds of thousands of workers. Over the next decade, the US Department of Education expects that number to rise by another million students.
Yet at the same time, headlines blaze about universities in crisis. By these measures, the higher education industry is booming. Corporate-style management, cost-cutting governments, mobilization by students, and strikes by faculty members have all taken their toll.
To many students and staff alike, these institutions have become a miserable place to study and work, raising the question: What makes for a good university?In this inspiring new work, Raewyn Connell asks us to consider just that. She argues that in order to reform universities, we need to start by fundamentally