Steven Brint
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780691182667
- eISBN:
- 9780691184890
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691182667.003.0009
- Subject:
- Education, Higher Education
This chapter discusses other major challenges to the U.S. higher education system: rising costs, online competition, and controversies over permissible speech. These challenges can be interpreted as ...
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This chapter discusses other major challenges to the U.S. higher education system: rising costs, online competition, and controversies over permissible speech. These challenges can be interpreted as problems of growth in the context of resource constraints. Cost problems were largely attributable to universities' requirements for sufficient revenues to support larger staffs and new responsibilities within the context of state disinvestment. Online competition was a result of the search for market alternatives to traditional, high-cost residential campuses within the context of an expanding system that included many low-income students. And the conflicts over speech were, in most cases, the by-product of tensions between students from comparatively privileged backgrounds and those from underrepresented groups.Less
This chapter discusses other major challenges to the U.S. higher education system: rising costs, online competition, and controversies over permissible speech. These challenges can be interpreted as problems of growth in the context of resource constraints. Cost problems were largely attributable to universities' requirements for sufficient revenues to support larger staffs and new responsibilities within the context of state disinvestment. Online competition was a result of the search for market alternatives to traditional, high-cost residential campuses within the context of an expanding system that included many low-income students. And the conflicts over speech were, in most cases, the by-product of tensions between students from comparatively privileged backgrounds and those from underrepresented groups.
Terry-Ann Jones
Laura Nichols (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780823276165
- eISBN:
- 9780823277186
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823276165.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Education
The current daily experiences of undocumented students as they navigate the processes of entering and then thriving in Jesuit colleges are explored in this book alongside an investigation of the ...
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The current daily experiences of undocumented students as they navigate the processes of entering and then thriving in Jesuit colleges are explored in this book alongside an investigation of the knowledge and attitudes among staff and faculty about undocumented students in their midst, and the institutional response to their presence. Cutting across the fields of U.S. immigration policy, theory and history, religion, law, and education, this book delineates the historical and present-day contexts of immigration, including the role of religious institutions. This unique volume, based on an extensive two-year study (2010–12) of undocumented students at Jesuit colleges in the United States, incorporates survey research and in-depth interviews to present the perspectives of students, staff, and the institutions.Less
The current daily experiences of undocumented students as they navigate the processes of entering and then thriving in Jesuit colleges are explored in this book alongside an investigation of the knowledge and attitudes among staff and faculty about undocumented students in their midst, and the institutional response to their presence. Cutting across the fields of U.S. immigration policy, theory and history, religion, law, and education, this book delineates the historical and present-day contexts of immigration, including the role of religious institutions. This unique volume, based on an extensive two-year study (2010–12) of undocumented students at Jesuit colleges in the United States, incorporates survey research and in-depth interviews to present the perspectives of students, staff, and the institutions.
Cyrus R. K. Patell
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479893720
- eISBN:
- 9781479879502
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479893720.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter examines the prospects of multiculturalism within emerging governmental and educational policies. It begins with the so-called “culture wars” of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which ...
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This chapter examines the prospects of multiculturalism within emerging governmental and educational policies. It begins with the so-called “culture wars” of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which grew from the unrest that was created by the combination of the civil rights movement and immigration reform. By the late 1980s, multiculturalism was reverberating throughout the U.S. education system, though it would later prove to be another obstacle in the realization of cross-cultural conversation. The chapter also considers the term “Nuyorican,” which offers a case study in the dynamics of cultural contamination and way in which literary and artistic cultures can unsettle categories of identity. Finally, this chapter looks at another form of exclusion by examining the internal and external discourse surrounding the gay community.Less
This chapter examines the prospects of multiculturalism within emerging governmental and educational policies. It begins with the so-called “culture wars” of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which grew from the unrest that was created by the combination of the civil rights movement and immigration reform. By the late 1980s, multiculturalism was reverberating throughout the U.S. education system, though it would later prove to be another obstacle in the realization of cross-cultural conversation. The chapter also considers the term “Nuyorican,” which offers a case study in the dynamics of cultural contamination and way in which literary and artistic cultures can unsettle categories of identity. Finally, this chapter looks at another form of exclusion by examining the internal and external discourse surrounding the gay community.
Leonard Lynn, Hal Salzman, and Daniel Kuehn
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780226468334
- eISBN:
- 9780226468471
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226468471.003.0009
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Microeconomics
This chapter examines a natural experiment in science and engineering labor market elasticity, providing an empirical study of the responsiveness of supply to demonstrated demand of employers. U.S. ...
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This chapter examines a natural experiment in science and engineering labor market elasticity, providing an empirical study of the responsiveness of supply to demonstrated demand of employers. U.S. petroleum engineering expanded in the 1970s and then stabilized for three decades. By the early 2000s, this cohort was retiring at the same time there were sharp increases in oil prices and new exploration. Together, these factors led to dramatic increases in hiring and in starting salaries. In response, U.S. universities increased petroleum graduates fourfold over the decade 2003 to 2013, almost entirely of U.S. students. In this study of petroleum engineering demand and supply, the authors provide empirical analysis that addresses broader questions about the capacity of the education system to meet industry demand for highly skilled labor. It suggests that highly skilled labor markets are responsive to demand that results in wage increases, and universities are able to expand capacity, even in highly specialized and skilled areas such as petroleum engineering.Less
This chapter examines a natural experiment in science and engineering labor market elasticity, providing an empirical study of the responsiveness of supply to demonstrated demand of employers. U.S. petroleum engineering expanded in the 1970s and then stabilized for three decades. By the early 2000s, this cohort was retiring at the same time there were sharp increases in oil prices and new exploration. Together, these factors led to dramatic increases in hiring and in starting salaries. In response, U.S. universities increased petroleum graduates fourfold over the decade 2003 to 2013, almost entirely of U.S. students. In this study of petroleum engineering demand and supply, the authors provide empirical analysis that addresses broader questions about the capacity of the education system to meet industry demand for highly skilled labor. It suggests that highly skilled labor markets are responsive to demand that results in wage increases, and universities are able to expand capacity, even in highly specialized and skilled areas such as petroleum engineering.
William M. Sullivan
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190499242
- eISBN:
- 9780190499273
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190499242.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
The Conclusion provides a summary of the argument and its illustrations. The book’s argumentative arc ends with the claim that humanistic liberal education as practiced in the PTEV provides an ...
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The Conclusion provides a summary of the argument and its illustrations. The book’s argumentative arc ends with the claim that humanistic liberal education as practiced in the PTEV provides an example of how to build common ground for dialogue and enrichment among religious and secular approaches in higher education toward the end of developing a more effective approach to educating students for the 21st century. The evidence presented by the vocation programs examined in the book supports the conclusion that these experiments provide American higher education with intellectual and cultural resources, examples of organizational innovation, and pedagogical practices that, taken together, constitute an alternative to the current situation that for too many students breeds either acquiescence in drift or a too narrow drive for achievement. The Conclusion ends by sketching reasons to think that a realignment of undergraduate education around the quest for purpose can make it possible for today’s students to break out of this dispiriting culture of acquiescence toward growth in academic learning, social development, and the formation of identities sustained by purpose.Less
The Conclusion provides a summary of the argument and its illustrations. The book’s argumentative arc ends with the claim that humanistic liberal education as practiced in the PTEV provides an example of how to build common ground for dialogue and enrichment among religious and secular approaches in higher education toward the end of developing a more effective approach to educating students for the 21st century. The evidence presented by the vocation programs examined in the book supports the conclusion that these experiments provide American higher education with intellectual and cultural resources, examples of organizational innovation, and pedagogical practices that, taken together, constitute an alternative to the current situation that for too many students breeds either acquiescence in drift or a too narrow drive for achievement. The Conclusion ends by sketching reasons to think that a realignment of undergraduate education around the quest for purpose can make it possible for today’s students to break out of this dispiriting culture of acquiescence toward growth in academic learning, social development, and the formation of identities sustained by purpose.
