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PublisherBelt Publishing

ISBN-101948742845

ISBN-139781948742849

eBay Product ID (ePID)17050417161

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Number of Pages128 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NamePost-Pandemic Liberal Arts College : a Manifesto for Reinvention

Publication Year2020

SubjectEducational Policy & Reform / General, General, Higher, Administration / Higher

TypeTextbook

AuthorBeth Benedix, Steve Volk

Subject AreaEducation

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight5.3 Oz

Item Length7.2 in

Item Width5 in

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Reviews"It's been a rough year for higher education. The COVID-19 pandemic has seen schools experimenting with remote-only learning and bumpy in-person reopenings, leaving students, faculty, and staff stressed, dissatisfied, and worried about their futures. A new book by two longtime professors suggests that the best solution is a total overhaul. Written during this year's chaos, The Post-Pandemic Liberal Arts College: A Manifesto for Reinvention,/em> outlines the numerous deep-seated problems inside small liberal arts colleges (SLACs) and proposes a massive overhaul of these institutions."--Pearse Anderson, Teen Vogue, "Volk and Benedix ... boldly raise issues the bare mention of which flirts with apostasy. They give unvarnished acknowledgement of the existential threat facing higher education, a grim prospect most faculty ignore or deny. Volk and Benedix use this in service of a call for radical change and openness to risk-taking."--Gabriel Paquette, Chronicle of Higher Education

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Dewey Decimal378.73

SynopsisA succinct and impassioned call to reimagine the small liberal arts college, by two veteran educators. Private liberal arts colleges have struggled for decades; now, as the COVID-19 pandemic widens cracks latent in many American institutions, they are facing a possibly mortal crisis. In The Post-Pandemic Liberal Arts College: A Manifesto for Reinvention, Steven Volk and Beth Benedix call for small colleges to seize this moment and reinvent themselves. With the rise of rankings that set peer institutions against each other, tuition that outpaces income, creeping pre-professionalism, and a race to build student "customers" the splashiest new amenities, many private liberal arts colleges have strayed from their founders' missions. If they could shed the mantle of exclusivity, reduce costs, facilitate true social mobility, and collaborate with each other, the authors argue, they might both survive and again become just, equitable, accessible institutions able to offer the transformative and visionary education that is their hallmark. Educators, students, parents, and anyone invested in the future of higher ed should read this book., A succinct and impassioned call to reimagine the small liberal arts college, by two veteran educators. Private liberal arts colleges have struggled for decades; now, as the COVID-19 pandemic widens cracks latent in many American institutions, they are facing a possibly mortal crisis. In The Post-Pandemic Liberal Arts College: A Manifesto for Reinvention , Steven Volk and Beth Benedix call for small colleges to seize this moment and reinvent themselves. With the rise of rankings that set peer institutions against each other, tuition that outpaces income, creeping pre-professionalism, and a race to build student "customers" the splashiest new amenities, many private liberal arts colleges have strayed from their founders' missions. If they could shed the mantle of exclusivity, reduce costs, facilitate true social mobility, and collaborate with each other, the authors argue, they might both survive and again become just, equitable, accessible institutions able to offer the transformative and visionary education that is their hallmark. Educators, students, parents, and anyone invested in the future of higher ed should read this book.