Universitas : the social restructuring of American undergraduate education / Thomas E. Boudreau ; foreword by John M. Carfora.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boudreau, Tom.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States.

Education, Higher.

Education, Higher--United States--Administration.

Education, Higher--Social aspects--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Other Title:

Social restructuring of American undergraduate education

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Believing that current educational policies and practices in American institutions of higher learning contribute to an incoherent, disjunctive, and wasteful four-year experience for many undergraduates, the author provides a sense of new direction to aid in the restructuring and reform of undergraduate education in America. The primary question of the work is: How can the years of undergraduate education empower the student with the knowledge and integrated set of skills needed for a lifetime of learning and productive work? Boudreau focuses on the primary responsibility of all institutions of higher learning to provide a superior undergraduate education. All other functions of a university should be secondary to this commitment. Unfortunately, this basic premise seems lost today. This work argues that universities must undergo significant reform and renewal, especially at the undergraduate level, if they are to prepare students successfully for the future.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-213) and index.

ISBN:

9798216030782

9780313005954

0313005958

9780585386416

0585386412

OCLC:

232161422