Saving Higher Education

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Praise for Saving Higher Education "At last a book that answers one of higher education's mostburning questions: How do we provide America a cheaper, fasterundergraduate experience without cheating on the old family recipeand compromising standards? At a time when challenges of collegevalue, quality, and mission are high on the public agenda and anunprecedented number of institutions are exploring three-yeardegree programs, we are provided a road map that maintains academicintegrity by focusing on learning outcomes rather than processinputs. Bravo and about time. This book will add value and informthe thinking of all stakeholders, even the most skeptical offaculty. A three-year baccalaureate aligns the academy with theneeds and aspirations of the future. While enhancing effectiveness,it affords students what they want and need while meeting thenational agenda for socially and economically productivecitizens."--Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, president emeritus andUniversity Professor of Public Service, George WashingtonUniversity "This book provides a powerful model of how to redesign auniversity in the interests of student learning. The authors'proposed curriculum model addresses many of the fundamentaldysfunctions of higher education--the fragmentation,incoherence, and unfocused activity that produces the dispiritingresults of our enormous investment. They offer an evidence-basedframework for reshaping our institutions to serve the goals we allwish to achieve while beginning to address the pervasive financialchallenges that undermine our efforts. This book provides a vividand stimulating analysis of how to think about and executeconstructive change. Anyone concerned about the future of highereducation should read it and learn from it."--John Tagg,professor emeritus, Palomar College, and author, The LearningParadigm College "This book offers one thoughtful approach to a high-qualityeducation at a significantly lower cost. If educators respond,students will win." --Margaret L. Drugovich, president,Hartwick College

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Martin J. Bradley

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"While the central focus of the book is on the three-yearbaccalaureate degree, one of its major strengths is a highlyfocused, research-based discussion of innovative approaches tocurriculum and program design. These innovations, such ascompetency-driven curricula, collaborative learning, and coursemanagement systems, hold promise for improving both efficiency andquality. For example, applying the technique shown in the book foridentifying duplication among courses and treating curriculum as aninterconnected system for facilitating the attainment of programcompetencies could likely bring significant benefits for manypostsecondary institutions and their students. Owing to thestrength of such contributions, this book would be of value notjust to those who may be interested in the adoption of three-yearbaccalaureate degrees, but to others with broader interests in thereform of education in universities and colleges."--Michael L. Skolnik, OISE, University of Toronto, for theCanadian Journal of Higher Education (Revue canadienned'enseignement supérieur), Volume 42, No. 3"At last a book that answers one of higher education's mostburning questions: How do we provide America a cheaper, fasterundergraduate experience without cheating on the old family recipeand compromising standards? At a time when challenges of collegevalue, quality, and mission are high on the public agenda and anunprecedented number of institutions are exploring three-yeardegree programs, we are provided a road map that maintains academicintegrity by focusing on learning outcomes rather than processinputs. Bravo and about time. This book will add value and informthe thinking of all stakeholders, even the most skeptical offaculty. A three-year baccalaureate aligns the academy with theneeds and aspirations of the future. While enhancing effectiveness,it affords students what they want and need while meeting thenational agenda for socially and economically productivecitizens."--Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, president emeritus andUniversity Professor of Public Service, George WashingtonUniversity "This book provides a powerful model of how to redesign auniversity in the interests of student learning. The authors'proposed curriculum model addresses many of the fundamentaldysfunctions of higher education--the fragmentation,incoherence, and unfocused activity that produces the dispiritingresults of our enormous investment. They offer an evidence-basedframework for reshaping our institutions to serve the goals we allwish to achieve while beginning to address the pervasive financialchallenges that undermine our efforts. This book provides a vividand stimulating analysis of how to think about and executeconstructive change. Anyone concerned about the future of highereducation should read it and learn from it."--John Tagg,professor emeritus, Palomar College, and author, The LearningParadigm College "This book offers one thoughtful approach to ahigh-quality education at a significantly lower cost. If educatorsrespond, students will win."--Margaret L. Drugovich,president, Hartwick College
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