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Book SynopsisIn What Universities Can Be, the high-profile educator Robert J. Sternberg writes thoughtfully about the direction of higher education in this country and its potential to achieve future excellence.
Trade Review"What Universities Can Be by Robert J. Sternberg makes a compelling argument that standardized tests, admission standards, and much of college instruction administration and governance are well aligned and completely irrelevant for preparing young people to be creative participants in the workforce, who are appropriately engaged in civil discourse and service to others, and are capable of being the ethical leaders we need for the future. He explains how we could realign all of those elements in appropriate ways, and he provides clear and thoughtful insights into why the world of higher education looks the way it does." -- Ed Ray, President, Oregon State University
"In What Universities Can Be, Robert J. Sternberg contributes notably to the higher education field by establishing a model to guide the evolution of the modern university. Sternberg's conversational style is interesting and highly readable." -- Pamela Fry, Associate Provost and Associate Vice President of Undergraduate Education, Oklahoma State University
"Robert J. Sternberg draws on his exceptional scholarship and years in the administrative trenches to craft some nuggets of practical wisdom about what colleges and universities need to do to realize their espoused aspirations." -- George D. Kuh, Director, National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, University of Illinois
"What if we valued institutions of higher education for fostering good citizens and ethical leaders? Robert J. Sternberg, one of our most thoughtful psychologists, reflects intriguingly on this possibility." -- Howard Earl Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, author of
Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Twenty-first CenturyTable of ContentsIntroduction
Part I A New Future for Universities
1. Three Traditions of Higher Education in Relation to Democracy
2. The Mission of the ACCEL University
3. The Skills ACCEL Universities Should Develop
4. Diversity
Part II Who Gets In and Who Is Able to Go?
5. Admissions
6. Financial Aid and College Costs
Part III Student Learning and Life
7. Teaching and Learning
8. Assessing Student Learning
9. Retention and Graduation
10. The Role of Athletics
Part IV Structural Issues
11. Assessing Faculty
12. Governance
13. Marketing Higher Education
14. It's Not Only Students Who Need to Learn: A Model of Institutional Change for Assessing Universities as Learning Organizations
Part V Putting Theory into Practice
15. Transforming a University into an ACCEL University: What One Can Do Right Now
