The Rigidness of Academic Routine

Autor/in	Rosenberg, Brian
Titel	The Rigidness of Academic Routine
Quelle	In: Liberal Education, 104 (2018) 4 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0024-1822
Schlagwörter	Liberal Arts; College Administration; Educational Change; Paying for College; Equal Education; Access to Education; Humanities; STEM Education; Rural to Urban Migration; Student Costs; Resistance to Change; Student College Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; Bildungsreform; Studienfinanzierung; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Geisteswissenschaften; Humanwissenschaften; STEM; Landflucht; Studienkosten
Abstract	In this article, Brian Rosenberg observes that innumerable things have changed inside and outside academia since 1944, but the essential conservatism of the academy has not. When it comes to examining their own practices and assumptions, colleges and universities tend to be highly resistant to change and powerfully attached to whatever their current way of doing things happens to be. There is little about the governance structure or reward system in higher education that encourages substantial change. The careers of presidents and provosts are briefer, more tenuous, and more stressful than (maybe) ever before. Higher education is also inclined to be inward rather than outward looking: that is, to focus on the priorities and preferences of internal audiences--administrators, faculty members, trustees--rather than external audiences like prospective students and their families. Herein, Rosenberg highlights four major challenges to the current model of liberal education, most of which are addressed at least briefly in one or more of the articles in this issue of "Liberal Education": (1) Cost; (2) Inequality of access; (3) The flight from the humanities; and (4) The flight to cities. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01