Paul L. Gaston

Higher Education Accreditation (eBook, ePUB)

How It's Changing, Why It Must

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses this question head-on, asking whether accreditation is indeed in need of radical reform, and whether the agencies' authority should be curtailed; or whether in fact the changes now underway - that accrediting agencies contend ensure rigorous and consistent standards.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000976977
• Artikelnr.: 68356321

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. Eduardo M. Ochoa is interim president of California State University, Monterey Bay. He served in the Obama Administration as the U.S. as

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword - Eduardo M. Ochoa Preface. The State of the Union and the State
of Accreditation Acknowledgments Introduction 1. QUESTIONS THAT SHOULD BE
FREQUENTLY ASKED 2. MANY MISSIONS, MANY MASTERS. AN EVOLVING CHALLENGE 3.
WHAT ARE THE PROBLEMS?. ISSUES CONCERNING ACCREDITATION 4. WHAT'S TO BE
DONE? INDICTMENTS AND PROPOSALS 5. HOW REGIONAL ACCREDITATION IS
CHANGING-AND WHY IT MUST 6. HOW NATIONAL ACCREDITATION IS CHANGING-AND WHY
IT MUST 7. HOW SPECIALIZED ACCREDITATION IS CHANGING-AND WHY IT MUST 8.
CONSIDERING PRIORITIES FOR CHANGE AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME Appendix A. An
Acronymic Guide to Accreditation References Index