Deliberation and University Governance

2019 ◽  
pp. 110-150
Author(s):  
Richard M. Locke
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Governance ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Full Participation ◽  
Brown University ◽  
History Of ◽  
Collective Deliberation ◽  
Participation In Higher Education

In the United States, historical oppression and discrimination have barred certain groups based on their gender, race, religion, sexuality, and socioeconomic class from full participation in higher education. While there has been a long history of protest and pressure to diversify, progress has been mixed. After a recent wave of protests at Brown University, Richard M. Locke faced the task of developing a realistic and coherent university plan for addressing concerns and demands. Implementing insights from Joshua Cohen’s work on deliberation, Locke led a process that resulted in one of the most ambitious university diversity and inclusion action plans in the country. In this chapter, Locke describes the process undertaken and seeks to generalize from the experience at Brown to argue that collective deliberation can be an effective model for how universities can address an array of complex issues faced today.

Book Review: The Shaping of American Higher Education

NASPA Journal ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary H. Knock
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early History ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
History Of ◽  
Broad Understanding

In the introduction of this book, Arthur Cohen states that The Shaping of American Higher Education is less a history than a synthesis. While accurate, this depiction in no way detracts from the value of the book. This work synthesizes the first three centuries of development of high-er education in the United States. A number of books detail the early history of the American collegiate system; however, this book also pro-vides an up-to-date account of developments and context for under-standing the transformation of American higher education in the last quarter century. A broad understanding of the book’s subtitle, Emergence and Growth of the Contemporary System, is truly realized by the reader.

Broad Access and Steep Stratification in the First Mass System: High Participation Higher Education in the United States of America

2018 ◽  
pp. 227-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan Cantwell
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
System Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Present Condition ◽  
History Of Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
High Participation ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of

This chapter provides a detailed and extensive assessment of the United States of America’s (USA) high participation systems (HPS) of higher education. It considers the history of higher education, system development, and the present condition of higher education in the country. The USA was the first HPS and the American system remains globally influential. Higher education in the USA is a massive enterprise, defined by both excellent and dubious providers, broad inclusion, and steep inequality. The chapter further examines higher education in the USA in light of the seventeen HPS propositions. Perhaps more so than any other system, the American HPS conforms to the propositions. Notably, higher education in the USA is both more diverse horizontally, and stratified vertically, than most other HPS.

Presbyterians and Higher Education

2019 ◽  
pp. 567-580
Author(s):  
David S. Guthrie ◽  
R. Tyler Derreth
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Approaches To Learning ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of Higher Education ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Freedom Of Thought

This chapter explores Presbyterian influences and involvement in higher education. It begins by using Princeton as an historic lens to examine the “Presbyterian ideals” of reason and education, liberty, and differentiation. The Presbyterian regard for freedom of thought and intellectual edification produced denominational schools throughout the history of higher education, especially in the United States, that differed substantially in their overarching philosophies, approaches to learning, curricula, and emphases on Christian piety. The second part of the chapter identifies the proliferating diversity at the intersection of Presbyterianism and the higher education landscape in the twentieth century. It describes differentiation by theology, denominations, geography, and culture. The chapter ends with brief ruminations on the future roles and stability of Presbyterian higher education.

Important Events in the Development of Academic Advising in the United States

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Cook
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Academic Advising ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of Higher Education ◽  
Faculty Roles ◽  
Student Personnel ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Millennium

The development of academic advising parallels the history of higher education and reflects decades of student personnel work. Changes in funding, curricula, students, and faculty roles have all affected the means by which students have been advised. The evolution of advising eventually led to the formation of NACADA in 1979. Since 2001, when I last documented the history of academic advising in the Mentor, I have expanded the benchmark information and references. I also added key advising events in the new millennium.

History of Correspondence Instruction

2011 ◽  
pp. 1006-1011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary A. Berg
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Military Service ◽  
The United States ◽  
Computer Based Learning ◽  
Geographical Separation ◽  
Religious Convictions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
The 19Th Century

In a general sense, the origin of computer-based learning methods as they have developed internationally derived from correspondence instruction. In the United States, certain problems drove the development of alternative forms of higher education such as correspondence instruction at the end of the 19th century, including geographical separation from sources of higher education, demands of work and military service, lack of access for women, minorities, and the handicapped, religious convictions, and limitations of the curriculum.

scholarly journals Archibald Cary Coolidge: A Founder of Russian Studies in the United States

Slavic Review ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 651-667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert F. Byrnes
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
History Of Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
History Of

Americans have paid relatively little attention to the history of higher education in the United States, and Russian specialists have neglected the history of their own field, even though our foundations strongly affect our qualities as scholarteachers and the circumstances in which we work. One of the most important founding fathers of Russian studies in the United States was Archibald Cary Coolidge, a member of the Department of History at Harvard University from 1893 until his death in 1928, who launched teaching and research concerning Russia and Eastern Europe at Harvard and in many other colleges and universities through those whom he helped train.

The Changing Profile of College Access: The Truman Commission and Enrollment Patterns in the Postwar Era

2007 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 302-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongbin Kim ◽  
John L. Rury
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Postsecondary Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Popular Participation ◽  
Enrollment Patterns ◽  
History Of ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Participation In Higher Education

The 1947 President's Commission on Higher Education, popularly known as the Truman Commission, offered a remarkable vision, one of an expansive, inclusive and diverse system of postsecondary education in the United States. It appeared just as hundreds of thousands of former GIs poured onto the nation's campuses, taking advantage of a little heralded program to provide tuition and other benefits to veterans of the recently concluded World War II. As it turned out, both of these events signaled the beginning of a remarkable period of expansion in higher education. The postwar years have been described as the third great period of growth in the history of American education, a development that took decades to unfold. While the Commission suggested that nearly half of the nation's youth could benefit from collegiate education, it limited its projections to just thirteen years (to 1960). In fact, it took more than twice as long to approach such high levels of popular participation in higher education, and the most dramatic growth occurred in the 1960s and 1970s. In other respects, however, the President's commissioners' projections for change in enrollment patterns look remarkably prescient in retrospect. Even if they missed the timing of college growth and the significant role women played in it, their report still managed to anticipate a very broad process of change. By 1980 the collegiate student population had come to embody much of the inclusiveness and diversity that they had envisaged some thirty-three years earlier.

Alma Mater, Mater Exulum. Jesuit Education and Immigration in America

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael M. Canaris
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Migrant Students ◽  
Jesuit Higher Education ◽  
Moral Framework ◽  
History Of ◽  
Education And Immigration

This chapter explores both the history and commitment surrounding 225 years of Jesuit higher education in the United States to provide the so-called moral framework of this study. It examines the history of the Society of Jesus in the United States in terms of its relationship to immigrant populations, and discusses contemporary themes which make such a continued commitment to the often excluded and underappreciated population of migrant students viable and fruitful today. It argues that that Jesuit higher education shares a mission and commitment across generations to provide access to education; and in the U.S. context, especially to help immigrant families have an opportunity to earn their share of the American dream.

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