Paul L Gaston

The Challenge of Bologna

What United States Higher Education Has to Learn from Europe, and Why It Matters That We Learn It

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1999, a declaration formalizing 'the European process' was signed at and informally named for Europe's oldest university: Bologna. ""The Bologna Process"" has transformed higher education in Europe. This book offers an account of Bologna's achievements, and suggests how US higher education can constructively and effectively respond.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781579223663
• ISBN-10: 1579223664
• Artikelnr.: 26852798

Autorenporträt

Paul L. Gaston, Trustees Professor Emeritus at Kent State University (Ohio), has served four universities as a faculty member, dean, and provost. Having offered 14 years of university service as a provost (Northern Kentucky and Kent State), he has focused more recently on teaching, writing, and consulting.His recent books include General Education Transformed: How We Can, Why We Must (AAC&U, 2015), Higher Education Accreditation: How It's Changing, Why It Must (Stylus Publishing, 2014), General Education and Liberal Learning (AAC&U, 2010), The Challenge of Bologna: What U.S. Higher Education Has to Learn from Europe and Why It Matters That We Learn It (Stylus Publishing, 2010), and Revising General Education, with Jerry Gaff (AAC&U, 2009). His most recent book prior to this one, Ohio's Craft Beers (Kent State University Press, 2017), explores alternate approaches to "higher" education.His more than 50 published articles on literature and higher education include studies of the British hymn tradition, Anthony Powell, George Herbert, the role of the provost in fund-raising, the Bologna Process, minor league baseball, accreditation reform, Il Gattopardo, interart analogies, and the cultures of futures markets. He is one of the four original authors of the influential Degree Qualifications Profile (Lumina Foundation: 2011, 2015.)He received his degrees from Southeastern Louisiana College (BA) and from the University of Virginia (MA, Ph.D.), where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. He is now Distinguished Fellow at the Association of American Colleges and Universities and a consultant to Lumina Foundation. He lives in Northeast Ohio with his wife, Eileen, and two cats, Scout and Binx. For recreation, he enjoys hiking, cycling, reading, and supporting Chelsea (soccer) and the St. Louis Cardinals. His Twitter name is CardsFaninOhio. Carol Geary Schneider has been president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities since 1998.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Foreword-Carol Geary Schneider Preface An Expeditious
Overview 1. Why Pay Attention to Bologna? 2. The Road to Bologna 3. A Point
of Departure 4. Words to Actions. Bologna, Prague, Berlin 5. Urgency and
Understanding. Bergen and London 6. Beginning a New Decade.
Leuven/Louvain-la-Neuve 7. The Challenge For Bologna. Potholes-and
Possibilities 8. The Challenge Of Bologna. Access and Mobility 9. The
Challenge Of Bologna. Structure and Sequence 10. The Challenge Of Bologna.
Effectiveness and Accountability 11. Meeting the Challenge. Improving on
Europe's Example Appendix. A Guide to Acronyms References Index