Higher Education and the New Society

by George Keller

Overview

While he celebrated higher education as the engine of progress in every aspect of American life, George Keller also challenged academia’s sacred cows and entrenched practices with provocative ideas designed to induce “creative discomfort.” Completed shortly before his death in 2007, Higher Education and the New Society caps the career of one of higher education’s exceptional minds.

Refining and expanding ideas Keller developed over his fifty-year career, this book is a clarion call for change. In the face of a transformed American society marked by population shifts, technological upheavals, and a volatile economic landscape, Keller urges leaders in higher education to see and confront their own serious problems.

With characteristic forthrightness and inimitable wit, Keller targets critical areas where bold thinking is especially important, taking on such explosive issues as the configuration of academic disciplines, the runaway problem of big-time sports, the decline of the liberal arts, and the urgent problems of finances and costs.

Keller expected this book to ignite discussion and controversy within academic circles, and he hoped fervently that it would also lead to real thinking, real analysis, and urgently needed transformation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801890314
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	11/01/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.50(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

George Keller was an education consultant and one of America's leading scholars of higher education. He was chair of the graduate program in higher education studies at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Academic Strategy: The Management Revolution in American Higher Education, also published by Johns Hopkins.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. The Ingredients of the New Society
2. Education's Response to the New Society
3. What's Next for America's Colleges and Universities?
4. Remodeling the Kingpin
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Erudite, well-written, and thoughtful.
—William G. Tierney, Review of Higher Education

From the Publisher

Erudite, well-written, and thoughtful.

Review of Higher Education - William G. Tierney

Erudite, well-written, and thoughtful.

— William G. Tierney

Review of Higher Education