1st Edition
Theorizing the Resilience of American Higher Education How Colleges and Universities Adapt to Changing Social and Economic Conditions
By Geoffrey M. Cox
Copyright 2019
132 Pages
by
Routledge
132 Pages
by
Routledge
132 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book proposes a new theory of change in American higher education that explains the resilience of colleges and universities, and demonstrates how they adapt to new social and economic conditions. It argues that the demands for new educational missions, new sources of capital to finance innovation, and new organizational and governance models lead to the creation of institutional diversity.... Read more
Part I
Chapter 1: Commencing
Chapter 2: Institutional Longevity
Chapter 3: Organizational Diversity
Chapter 4: Is Higher Education Disruptable?
Part II
Chapter 5: Neither Pangloss nor Quixote
Chapter 6: Education in the Age of Information
Chapter 7: Peering into the F.O.G.
Afterword
Biography
Geoffrey M. Cox is the Senior Associate Dean for Administration and Finance, and Lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education, USA.
