What Universities Can Be : : A New Model for Preparing Students for Active Concerned Citizenship and Ethical Leadership /

What Universities Can Be : : A New Model for Preparing Students for Active Concerned Citizenship and Ethical Leadership / / Robert J. Sternberg.

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In What Universities Can Be, the high-profile educator Robert J. Sternberg writes thoughtfully about the direction of higher education in this country and its potential to achieve future excellence. Sternberg presents, for the first time, his concept of the ACCEL model, in which institutions of high...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Sternberg, Robert J.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 1 table
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I. A New Future for Universities
  • 1. Three Traditions of Higher Education in Relation to Democracy
  • 2. The Mission of the ACCEL University
  • 3. The Skills ACCEL Universities Should Develop
  • 4. Diversity
  • Part II. Who Gets In and Who Is Able to Go?
  • 5. Admissions
  • 6. Financial Aid and College Costs
  • Part III. Student Learning and Life
  • 7. Teaching and Learning
  • 8. Assessing Student Learning
  • 9. Retention and Graduation
  • 10. The Role of Athletics
  • Part IV. Structural Issues
  • 11. Assessing Faculty
  • 12. Governance
  • 13. Marketing Higher Education
  • 14. It’s Not Only Students Who Need to Learn
  • Part V. Putting Theory into Practice
  • 15. Transforming a University into an ACCEL University
  • References
  • Index

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