Overview
Description
An examination of historical trends and the present-day impetus for restructuring the form and function of US colleges and universities, including governance, curriculum, and methods of instruction.
Units
Lecture3
Learning Outcomes
- critically apply theory and research-based assessment to current and past instances of higher education reform efforts and strategies for innovation.
- analyze, in discussion and argumentative essays, the ways in which the form and function of higher education are challenged by reform and defended by reactive forces.
- conduct their own empirical analyses of ongoing reforms and innovations in higher education institutions.
- apply their knowledge and analysis to promoting the cause of higher education reform, pushing back against it, or holding it at arm’s length – however they see fit – while continuing to perceive and interpret its patterns and manifestations.