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Informationen zum Autor ROBERT ZEMSKY is a professor and the chair of the Learning Alliance for Higher Education at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Remaking the American University: Market Smart and Mission Centered and Making Reform Work: The Case for Transforming American Higher Education (both Rutgers University Press). Klappentext Checklist for Change diagnoses the problems in American higher education today and describes principal reforms that must occur in combination in order for it to remain a vital enterprise: a fundamental recasting of federal financial aid; new mechanisms for better channeling the competition among colleges and universities; recasting the undergraduate curriculum; and a stronger, more collective faculty voice in governance that defines not why, but how the enterprise must change. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments 1. Trapped in an Ecclesiastes Moment 2. A Faculty Encamped Just North of Armageddon 3. A Federalized Market with Little Incentive to Change 4. A Regulatory Quagmire 5. A Troublesome Fractiousness 6. A Disruptive Lexicon 7. A Different Footprint 8. A Liberal Arts Conundrum 9. A New Peace Treaty 10. A Stronger Faculty Voice 11. A Competent Curriculum 12. A Federal Commitment to Fix, Fund, and Facilitate References Index
