In this Book
- Breakpoint: The Changing Marketplace for Higher Education
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
summary
How can colleges adapt to disruptive change while staying true to their educational values?Second Place Winner of the Typographic Jacket from Washington PublishersThe challenges facing colleges and universities today are profound and complex. Fortunately, Jon McGee is an ideal guide through this dynamic marketplace. In Breakpoint, he argues that higher education is in the midst of an extraordinary moment of demographic, economic, and cultural transition that has significant implications for how colleges understand their mission, their market, and their management. Drawing from an extensive assessment of demographic and economic trends, McGee presents a broad and integrative picture of these changes while stressing the importance of decisive campus leadership. He describes the key forces that influence higher education and provides a framework from which trustees, presidents, administrators, faculty, and policy makers can address pressing issues in the aftermath of the Great Recession.Although McGee avoids endorsing one-size-fits-all solutions, he suggests a number of concrete strategies for handling prospective students and developing pedagogical practices, curricular content and delivery, and management structures. Practical and compelling, Breakpoint will help higher education leaders make choices that advance their institutional values and serve their students and the common good for generations to come.
Table of Contents
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- 1. A Liminal Moment
- pp. 1-7
- 3. Demographic Disruption
- pp. 22-41
- 4. Economic Disruption
- pp. 42-63
- 5. Cultural Disruption
- pp. 64-82
- 6. No Line on the Horizon
- pp. 83-99
- 7. Toward a New Marketplace
- pp. 100-106
- 8. Reimagine the Future: Think. Different.
- pp. 107-141
- 9. Breakpoint
- pp. 142-144
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 145-148
Additional Information
ISBN
9781421418216
Related ISBN(s)
9781421418209
MARC Record
OCLC
921701630
Pages
192
Launched on MUSE
2015-09-21
Language
English
Open Access
No