A New deal for the humanities: liberal arts and the future of public higher education

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (10) ◽  
pp. 53-4483-53-4483
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
The Future

The 30%: Who are the males in higher education in the UAE

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha Ridge ◽  
Samar Farah
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
Opting Out ◽  
Policy Paper ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
The Future ◽  
Number Of Males ◽  
Gulf Arab

In the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and other surrounding Gulf Arab nations an increasing number of males are opting out of higher education. In the UAE less than 30% of students attending public higher education institutions are male. Little however is known about why some males choose to continue their education and others do not. This policy paper, which is drawn from the first part of a study on understanding male enrolment patterns in the UAE, looks at a sample of males who have continued on to higher education. The paper begins with an overview of higher education in the UAE. It then looks at the factors influencing the participation and persistence of males in general. Next it outlines the study from which the data presented was taken, taking a closer look at the characteristics of males who have continued to higher education, including the roles of parents, schools and friends. Finally, the paper concludes by discussing the challenges facing males who choose to continue their education and how these might be dealt with in the future

What's the Future of Public Higher Education? A Review Essay on Gary C. Fethke and Andrew J. Policano's Public No More: A New Path to Excellence for America's Public Universities

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 1142-1150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Research Universities ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
Public Research ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
The Future ◽  
Private Research ◽  
Governance Models ◽  
Public Research Universities

Gary Fethke and Andrew Policano's book Public No More: A New Path to Excellence for America's Public Universities paints a picture of a future for public research universities that is very different than what many people will want to see. Their message is that the financial and governance models under which public universities have operated have broken down and that new models are required. While I do not always agree with their prescriptions, I argue that private research universities face many of the same issues as their public counterparts and that this book deserves to be widely read by all people concerned with the future of American higher education. (JEL H75, I22, I23, I28)

Futures for Literary Studies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Jay
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Future ◽  
Institutional Sustainability ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Impact

The future of literary studies will be shaped by new and emerging trends in scholarly, critical, and theoretical work, by changes in the material conditions that enable that work, and, perhaps most importantly, by how the institutions within which it functions respond to recent changes in higher education that increasingly threaten the viability of almost all humanities disciplines. The material conditions that shape work in literary studies have changed dramatically in recent decades. The impact of digital technology has been nothing short of transformative, and the changes it has introduced are bound to continue to reshape the field. At the same time, the expansion of the canon, the transnationalizing of literary studies, the revitalization of narratological, formalist, and aesthetic criticism, the emergence of new interdisciplinary fields including the study of sexuality and gender, ecocriticism, affect theory, and disability studies, promise to continue to exert influence in the coming decades. The future from these perspectives looks promising. At the same time, however, the institutional sustainability of literary studies has come under threat as the liberal arts model of higher education has increasingly given way to a stress in higher education on vocational training in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) disciplines, which has worked to undercut the value and the attraction of literary studies. How the field responds to these changes in the coming decade will be crucial to determining its future viability.

Considering the Future of Land Grant Ergonomics Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 359-363
Author(s):  
Barrett S. Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Land Grant ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
Employment Skills ◽  
Human Factors And Ergonomics ◽  
College Going ◽  
The Future ◽  
Workforce Productivity

Current discussions of challenges and weaknesses of higher education are a source of tension in the early decades of the 21st Century. These discussions reflect the public role and impact of higher education in the early 20th Century with the growth of the land grand university model. Changing social dynamics regarding college-going populations, as well as agricultural and engineering innovations from 1900-20, help to provide context for the role of human factors and ergonomics training for public higher education and workforce productivity. Attempts to forecasting new models of higher education based on societal changes from 2000-20 are problematic, as suggested by agricultural changes from 1900 – 2000. The future of land grant (and human factors and ergonomics) education requirements are tied to our understanding of different historical models of higher education, and demands for matching employment skills and job prospects for new generations of economic, societal and technical challenges.

scholarly journals Constructing the crisis: Audience perceptions of for-profit education and institutional integrity in the closure of Dana College

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Sladek
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Liberal Arts College ◽  
Unsuccessful Attempt ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Institutional Integrity ◽  
The Future ◽  
Intellectual Integrity

For-profit education is playing an increasingly important role in the educational landscape, with more and more students enrolling in these institutions. However, many within and outside higher education decry the 'corporatisation' of education, fearing that profit motives are beginning to override concerns of institutional and intellectual integrity. This article examines how narratives surrounding for-profit education shape public perception of institutional integrity and how these narratives are co-constructed by their audiences by highlighting as a case study Dana College, a small nonprofit liberal arts college that suspended operations in June 2010 after an unsuccessful attempt to transfer ownership to a for-profit entity. This case study illustrates how failing to account for conflicting, audience-dependent perceptions of educational integrity in an evolving educational landscape can jeopardise the future of higher education.

THE ROLE OF A HIGHER EDUCATION DIPLOMA IN THE PROFESSIONAL CAREER OF THE SPECIALIST IN THE FUTURE

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 456-466
Author(s):  
Kateryna Kolesnikova ◽  
Dmytro Lukianov ◽  
Tatyana Olekh
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
The Future
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