Posts Tagged ‘Universities’

Strategic Change in Colleges and Universities: Planning to Survive and Prosper

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This detailed guide outlines a strategic planning approach uniquely suited to the academic environment and proven effective in numerous institutions around the country. The authors address the complex nature of stakehold… More >>

Strategic Change in Colleges and Universities: Planning to Survive and Prosper

Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life

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The question of what living is for—of what one should care about and why—is the most important question a person can ask. Yet under the influence of the modern research ideal, our colleges and universities have expel… More >>

Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life

Inhabiting the Borders: Foreign Language Faculty in American Colleges and Universities

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This study explored the experience of foreign language faculty in American colleges and universities. Foreign language faculty, because of the gender make-up of the field, their employment status, and their intellectual … More >>

Inhabiting the Borders: Foreign Language Faculty in American Colleges and Universities

Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life

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The question of what living is for—of what one should care about and why—is the most important question a person can ask. Yet under the influence of the modern research ideal, our colleges and universities have expelled this question from their classrooms, judging it unfit for organized study. In this eloquent and carefully considered book, Tony Kronman explores why this has happened and calls for the restoration of life’s most important question to an honored place in higher education. The author contrasts an earlier era in American education, when the question of the meaning of life was at the center of instruction, with our own times, when this question has been largely abandoned by college and university teachers.  In particular, teachers of the humanities, who once felt a special responsibility to guide their students in exploring the question of what living is for, have lost confidence in their authority to do so. And they have lost sight of … More >>

Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life