The Market-Driven Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-38
Author(s):  
Mike Chanslor ◽  
Janet Buzzard
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Career Pathways ◽  
Career Readiness ◽  
Certificate Programs ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
Economic Landscape ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Workforce Needs

This chapter explores the current demographic and political/economic landscape of higher education and offers possible responses to challenges of retaining a useful, modern liberal arts perspective that addresses the needs of a career readiness emphasis. These responses include the possible compression of higher education through more efficient curricula design and delivery, partnerships with high schools to help build career pathways for traditional students, and the offering of alternative micro-credentials, such as certificate programs. The importance of aligning higher education with workforce needs is also addressed.

scholarly journals Neoliberalism Within Psychology Higher Education in Indonesia: A Critical Analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teguh Wijaya Mulya
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Market Orientation ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
Political Economic

Critical scholars have demonstrated the ways in which neoliberalism has increasingly become a dominant organising principle in current global political, economic, and social practices, including in higher education. This article aims to explore how and to what extent neo-liberal discourses have operated in a specific context, namely, in psychology higher education in Indonesia. To this end, the author examined policy documents published by relevant authorities such as AP2TPI, Dirjen DIKTI, and BAN-PT; and reflect on how those policies were enacted in the author’s 10-year experience as a psychology lecturer in a university in Indonesia. The results show that neoliberal discourses such as standardisation, competitiveness, and market orientation have underpinned the policies, curricula, and practices of psychology higher education in Indonesia. The author argues that such discourses (re)produce psychology students, graduates, and lecturers who are competitive, result-oriented, and market-driven. Consequently, democratic, humane, and organic ways of learning and practicing psychology have given way to more mechanistic, standardised, and box-ticking approaches to human behaviour.

scholarly journals Community College Gerontology Programs: Revisiting and Re-Visioning Workforce, Career Pathways, and Transfer

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 146-146
Author(s):  
Jennifer (Jenny) Sasser ◽  
Roger Anunsen ◽  
Michael Faber
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Community College ◽  
Community Colleges ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Career Pathways ◽  
Aging Workforce ◽  
Continuing Higher Education ◽  
College And University ◽  
Education Needs ◽  
Workforce Needs

Abstract The session will focus on new and existing innovative ways that Community Colleges are effectively addressing workforce needs resulting from a rapidly aging population; the ever-expanding career pathways available to students in the field of gerontology; as well as the continuing higher education needs of students transferring to bachelor’s and graduate-level gerontology programs. A panel of Community College and University gerontology professionals, representing both the GSA Community College and Aging Workforce Interest Groups, will share the innovative ways that they are working to address the three focus areas of this symposium. We will also include opportunities for discussion with participants about their experiences with and ideas for addressing these issues.

Two Cheers for Higher Education

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Brint
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Academic Expectations ◽  
Current State ◽  
Academic Entrepreneurs ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
Power Centers ◽  
American Society

Today's headlines suggest that universities' power to advance knowledge and shape American society is rapidly declining. But this book's author has tracked numerous trends demonstrating their vitality. After a recent period that witnessed soaring student enrollment and ample research funding, the book argues that universities are in a better position than ever before. Focusing on the years 1980–2015, it details the trajectory of American universities, which was influenced by evolving standards of disciplinary professionalism, market-driven partnerships (especially with scientific and technological innovators outside the academy), and the goal of social inclusion. Conflicts arose: academic entrepreneurs, for example, flouted their campus responsibilities, and departments faced backlash over the hiring of scholars with nontraditional research agendas. Nevertheless, educators' commitments to technological innovation and social diversity prevailed and created a new dynamism. The book documents these successes along with the challenges that result from rapid change. Today, knowledge-driven industries generate almost half of US GDP, but divisions by educational level split the American political order. Students flock increasingly to fields connected to the power centers of American life and steer away from the liberal arts. And opportunities for economic mobility are expanding even as academic expectations decline. In describing how universities can meet such challenges head on, especially in improving classroom learning, the book offers not only a clear-eyed perspective on the current state of American higher education but also a pragmatically optimistic vision for the future.

The Student Affairs Profession in the Academic Marketplace

NASPA Journal ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan B. Hirt
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Affairs ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Student Affairs Professionals ◽  
Academic Affairs ◽  
Seven Principles ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
Principles Of Good Practice ◽  
The Way

This essay compares the narratives that have emerged in recent years to describe the higher education enterprise with the narratives used to describe student affairs’ endeavors. I posit that the way in which student affairs professionals present their agenda is out of sync with the market-driven culture of the academy. The seven Principles of Good Practice are used to illustrate the incongruence between student affairs and academic affairs narratives on campus. I offer ways that those Principles can be recast to be more closely aligned with the new academic marketplace.

Reasons for Student Behavior Codes: A Qualitative Study at Two Christian Liberal Arts Institutions

NASPA Journal ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brad A. Lau
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Student Behavior ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Christian Higher Education ◽  
Liberal Arts Institutions ◽  
Institutional Values

One of the great challenges facing Christian higher education is the role and impact of student behavior codes in furthering institutional values and inculcating those values in the students served by such institutions. The perspectives of administrators, faculty members, and students regarding the rationale for codes of conduct at their institution are examined. To obtain data, administrators, faculty members, and students at two Christian liberal arts institutions completed questionnaires and participated in follow-up interviews based on individual responses to the questionnaire. The views of all three groups are described as they see behavior codes relating to institutional purpose and the development and implementation of such codes.

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