Ivory tower blues : a university system in crisis /
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Author / Creator: | Côté, James E. |
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Imprint: | Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2007. |
Description: | vii, 251 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6487915 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Canada's World-Leading University System: Image versus Reality
- Who Should Read This Book?
- 1. Troubles in Paradise
- The Disengaged Student
- Higher Expectations, Lower Effort
- Credentialism and Grade Inflation
- Credentialism and Academic Disengagement
- Roots of Student Disengagement
- The New Functions of Higher Education
- Sorting, Weeding, and Cooling
- The Obsession with High Grades: Grade Inflation Up Close
- Conclusion
- 2. The Professor as Reluctant Gatekeeper
- How the New Functions Have Affected the Interpersonal Dynamics of Teaching and Learning: Faculty Disengagement
- The Growth of Education as a Business
- Life in the Credential Mart
- Deskilling of the Professoriate
- The Cult of Self-esteem and Other Sources of the Sense of Entitlement
- Learning to Live with Student Disengagement
- Awareness of the Issues: Sliding Standards
- Perceptions of Student Engagement: Institutionalized Indifference
- The Downward Spiral: The New Normal
- Job Satisfaction and Job Stress: Being Thick-Skinned
- Student Evaluations: Necessary Evils?
- Sharing the Blame
- Conclusion: Higher Education as a Big Business
- 3. The Student as a Reluctant Intellectual
- The Hazardous Passage to Adulthood
- The Millennial Generation
- The Gamut of Student Engagement
- Voices of Disengagement
- Student Empowerment
- The Retreat of Faculty
- Grade Inflation and the Democratization of Education
- Education as a Commodity
- Standards and Criteria
- Edubusiness: University as Corporation
- Conclusion: System Failure of Students
- 4. Parents as Investors and Managers: The Bank of Mom and Dad (BMD)
- Education as an Investment
- Setting the Right Goals
- Estimating Costs
- Baby Boomer Parents and the Experiences of Their Children
- The Mini-Me and the Helicopter Parent
- In Defence of the Helicopter Parent
- How Parents Influence and Support Their Children
- Aspirations
- Finances: The Bottom Line
- Conclusion
- 5. Policy Implications: So What Is University Good For? What Is Added beyond Alternatives?
- Credentialism Revisited: A Brief History
- You Can Lead Them to Water, but...
- Grade Inflation Revisited: Underlying Causes
- The Science of Grade Inflation and the Route to Reform
- The University Graduate Revisited: What Is Added beyond Other Trajectories to the Workplace and Adulthood?
- Show Me the Numbers: What Science Says about the High End of Benefits of Higher Education
- Monetary Rates of Return
- Looking beyond Statistical Averages: What Science Says about the Low End of the Benefits of the University Education
- Underemployment Revisited
- The Accessibility Issue
- The Relative Merits of Soft and Hard Sorting Systems: Dealing with Accessibility
- Conclusion: The Idea of the University - Education versus Training
- Appendix
- Methodological Considerations
- Defining and Measuring Grade Inflation
- Notes
- Index