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Book SynopsisHow can universities shape creative, adaptive, integrated learners ready to confront the world? This book's clear-eyed optimism is a challenge to everyone in higher education. American higher education is being torn apart. Institutions, curricula, courses, and faculty roles are being unbundledbroken into constituent parts in the name of efficiency and cost savings. As a result, the college learning experience is fragmented and incoherent, leaving graduates less and less equipped to confront the dire social problems that cause those divisions in the first place. In College Made Whole, Chris W. Gallagher lays bare the dangers of the dis-integration of the college experience and shows how we can put higher education back together again. The successful colleges and universities of the future, Gallagher argues, will be integrated: coherently and cohesively designed to help students achieve a lifelong learning experience that is more than the sum of its parts. Pushing back against pernicio
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Introduction. The Future of Higher Education Is Integration
1. The Many and the One: Integrating Higher Education as a Public Good and a Private Good
2. Depth and Breadth: Integrating Specialized Expertise and Generalized Understanding
3. Inside and Outside: Integrating Classroom Learning and Learning in Other Contexts
4. A Life and a Living: Integrating Liberal Learning and Professional Learning
5. Humans and Machines: Integrating Faculty Expertise and Learning Technologies
6. Now and Then: Integrating Degrees and Lifelong Learning Opportunities
Conclusion. Educating Esther
Notes
Index
