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- W1519521821 abstract "The Quiet Crisis: How Higher Education is Failing America BY PETER SMITH ANKER, 2004; 159 PP. When it comes to accounting for what ails American higher education, there is no lack of diagnoses. Indeed, current literature is replete with articles, monographs, reports, and books detailing maladies afflicting a system simultaneously touted as best in world. If anything is lacking, it is new, realistic remedies for academe's real and/or perceived ills, for policy and practice that will maintain and even bolster system's competitiveness. In The Quiet Crisis, educator and policymaker-turned university president Peter Smith treads now well-worn path of whither American higher education? but does it with two refreshing departures-a blunt, plainspoken approach to problem (not laden with academese), and a creative but significant discussion of the way forward. The book leads, logically, with diagnosis, blending statistics familiar to many in policy world with anecdotes gleaned from his experiences as a Wunderkind administrator (helping to found Community College of Vermont in his 20s) and as an elected official. Smith's read of symptoms and underlying dysfunction are familiar, but no less compelling. The college opportunity pipeline is leaking on a scale that threatens nation's economic competitiveness and social cohesion. Colleges and universities are clothed in traditions of teaching, research, and service that must be overhauled to meet demands of a global society in Information Age. Most damning is fact that many institutions are largely configured to help those most equipped to navigate collegiate world on their own, leaving those less prepared for that world by virtue of socioeconomic status or life experience to fend for themselves. Little in this portion of book should surprise anyone who has spent any amount of time in higher education, but Smith's straightforward approach may cause some to look at these issues through new eyes. The transition between diagnosis and cure contains book's greatest contribution-namely, its emphasis on how learning takes place, what that means for academe as currently configured, and role of technology in meeting learners where they are. Smith cites compelling research on learning and development of human intelligence to issue two powerful reminders to a system faced with an influx of older, diverse learners. …" @default.
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