Description
Moving beyond critique, Alternative Solutions to Higher Education’s Challenges uses an appreciative approach to highlight what is working in colleges and universities and offers an examination of how institutions can improve practice. Drawing on examples and cases from real higher education institutions, this book offers a solution-focused framework that challenges the negative assumptions that have plagued higher education. Chapters explore how current narratives have perpetuated and maintained systematic flaws in our education system and have hindered reform. This invaluable resource breaks from the substantial literature that only highlights the many problems facing higher education today, and instead provides alternative strategies and essential recommendations for moving higher education institutions forward.
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Developing a Toolbox for Appreciative Approaches to Change
Chapter 2: Cultivating Organizational Strengths Through Democratic Leadership
Chapter 3: Fostering an Enriching Community Life and Effective Public Service
Chapter 4: Centering Institutional Practices Around Meaningful Student Learning
Chapter 5: Leveraging Liberal Education to Promote Equal Opportunity
Chapter 6: Embracing the Heart in the Head(y) World of Higher Education
Chapter 7: Reclaiming Teaching in Person
Chapter 8: Moving Forward
References
Index
