Becoming Great Universities: Small Steps for Sustained Excellence
- ISBN-10
- 0691212600
- ISBN-13
- 9780691212609
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2022-04-05
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Authors
- Richard J. Light, Allison Jegla
Description
How campus communities of every kind can transform themselves from good to great Becoming Great Universities highlights ten core challenges that all colleges and universities face and offers practical steps that everyone on campus—from presidents to first-year undergraduates—can take to enhance student life and learning. This incisive book, written in a friendly and engaging style, draws on conversations with presidents, deans, and staff at hundreds of campuses across the country as well as scores of in-depth interviews with students and faculty. Providing suggestions that all members of a campus community can implement, Richard Light and Allison Jegla cover topics such as how to build a culture of innovation on campus, how to improve learning outcomes through experimentation, how to help students from under-resourced high schools succeed in college, and how to attract students from rural areas who may not be considering colleges far from their communities. They offer concrete ways to facilitate constructive interactions among students from different backgrounds, create opportunities for lifelong learning and engagement, and inspire students to think globally. And most of the ideas presented in this book can be implemented at little to no cost. Featuring a wealth of evidence-based examples, Becoming Great Universities offers actionable suggestions for everyone to have a positive impact on college life regardless of whether their campus is urban or rural, private or public, large or small, wealthy or not.
Get the book
Similar books
-
Making the Most of College
By Richard J. LightDraws on years of research and interviews with undergraduates to explore the choices students make to obtain an enriching college experience.
-
College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be - Second Edition
By Andrew DelbancoIn College, prominent cultural critic Andrew Delbanco offers a trenchant defense of such an education, and warns that it is becoming a privilege reserved for the relatively rich.
-
The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence Its Indispensable National Role Why It Must Be Protected
By Jonathan R. ColePurcell and Bloch received a Nobel Prize for this research. Herbert S. Gutowsky of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign showed that nuclear magnetic resonance could be used to establish molecular structure and to measure rates ...
-
Becoming Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Opportunities for Colleges and Universities
By Gina Ann GarciaWinner of the AAHHE Book of the Year Award by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs)—not-for-profit, degree-granting colleges and universities that enroll at least 25% or more Latinx ...
-
The Last Lecture
By Randy PauschIt was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living. In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form.
-
Becoming a Student-Ready College: A New Culture of Leadership for Student Success
By Tia Brown McNair, Susan Albertine, Michelle Asha CooperClear and concise, this book is packed with insightful discussion and practical strategies for achieving your ambitious student success goals.
-
Wisdom's Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University
By James Axtell, William R Kenan Professor of Humanities James Axtell"Axtell's book stands alone as the only work that traces the historical genealogy of America's elite research universities. The scholarship is deep and solid, and Axtell's distinctive voice comes through.
-
Land-Grant Universities for the Future: Higher Education for the Public Good
By Stephen M. Gavazzi, E. Gordon GeeThis book should be of great interest to faculty members and students, as well as those parents, legislators, policymakers, and other area stakeholders who have a vested interest in the well-being of America’s original public universities ...
-
Socrates in the Boardroom: Why Research Universities Should Be Led by Top Scholars
By Amanda H. GoodallFor the economic effects of university or public research, see Adams (1990) and Adams and Clemmons (2008); Anselin, Varga, and Acs (1997, 2000); Basu, Fernald, and Shapiro (2001); Basu et al.
-
The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be
By Howard Gardner, Wendy Fischman"The authors present the results of a large-scale study of American colleges, and offer recommendations for rethinking and restructuring the delivery of liberal arts education"--