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Whatever It Is, I'm Against It: Resistance to Change in Higher Education by Bria
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- ISBN-13
- 9781682538289
- Book Title
- Whatever It Is, I'm Against It
- ISBN
- 9781682538289
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Subject Area
- Education
- Publication Name
- Whatever It Is, I'm Against It : Resistance to Change in Higher Education
- Publisher
- Harvard Education Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Educational Policy & Reform / General, Leadership, General, Higher
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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PROSE Award Finalist An invigorating work that identifies obstructions to transformative change in higher education and offers paths to break through. In "Whatever It Is, I'm Against It," president emeritus of Macalester College Brian Rosenberg draws on decades of higher education experience to expose the entrenched structures, practices, and cultures that inhibit meaningful postsecondary reform, even as institutions face serious challenges to their financial and educational models. A lively insider's account, the book pinpoints factors that hinder the ability of U.S. colleges and universities to be creative and entrepreneurial amid calls to improve affordability, access, and equity for students. Through pithy personal stories of divisive town hall meetings, multiyear college governance battles, and attempts at curricular reform, Rosenberg illustrates internal and external dynamics that impede institutional evolution. Pressures such as declining enrollment, escalating costs, and an oversupply of PhDs in academia have long signaled a grave need for reform within a profession that, as Rosenberg ruefully acknowledges, lacks organizational flexibility, depends greatly on reputation and ranking, and retains traditions, from the academic calendar to grading systems, that have remained essentially the same for decades. Rosenberg looks outside the U.S. system to find possible antidotes in innovative higher education models such as student-centered and experiential learning approaches. This thought-provoking work offers ample evidence for presidents, chancellors, deans, provosts, and faculty to consider as they plan their missions to achieve institutional transformation.
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Publisher
Harvard Education Press
ISBN-10
1682538281
ISBN-13
9781682538289
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16060719049
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Whatever It Is, I'm Against It : Resistance to Change in Higher Education
Publication Year
2023
Subject
Educational Policy & Reform / General, Leadership, General, Higher
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Education
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2023-033140
Reviews
"Brian Rosenberg's book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how we might move from the current university structures, practices, and cultures that protect the status quo to ones that inspire innovation in the service of students and the common good." -- Michael S. Roth , president, Wesleyan University and author of The Student: A Short History, "Brian Rosenberg has given us a 'tough love' book that is both hortatory and hopeful. He writes with salutary impatience about how entrenched in their ways academics can be in the face of irresistible change. But he also writes with affection, respect, and humor (including at his own expense) about the often-beleaguered people who work every day to serve students and thereby our collective future. This is a candid and lively guidebook through the daunting landscape in which our colleges and universities find themselves today. Everyone concerned about the future of higher education should read it." -- Andrew Delbanco , president, Teagle Foundation and Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies, Columbia University, "Rosenberg channels what sitting presidents think but dare not say. He argues persuasively that much of American higher education is heading to a cliff together. With no incentives for any one college, president, board, or faculty to innovate and serve the public good rather than narrow personal or institutional interests, changing course is problematic. But based on personal experience with one creative institution, he offers hope that change can happen." -- Catharine Bond Hill , managing director, Ithaka S+R and former president, Vassar College, "In 'Whatever It Is, I'm Against It,' Brian Rosenberg explains why many colleges and universities resist change. With admirable candor, he calls on our campuses to become more student-centered, more affordable, and more responsive to today's economy. An important book from one of higher education's most clear-sighted leads." -- Daniel R. Porterfield , president and CEO, Aspen Institute and former president, Franklin & Marshall College, "A deeply thoughtful, often funny, more often startling, and utterly compelling examination of American higher education in the twenty-first century. Brian Rosenberg, former president of Macalester College--my alma mater--has written an evidence-driven book that is enlivened by anecdote, sweetened by passion, and has the bite of a lemon sandwich." -- Tim O'Brien
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Lb2806.23.R67 2023
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