By George Keller
While he celebrated larger schooling because the engine of development in each element of yank lifestyles, George Keller additionally challenged academia’s sacred cows and entrenched practices with provocative rules designed to urge "creative discomfort." accomplished almost immediately earlier than his loss of life in 2007, Higher schooling and the hot Society caps the occupation of 1 of upper education’s remarkable minds.
Refining and increasing rules Keller constructed over his fifty-year occupation, this booklet is a clarion demand swap. within the face of a remodeled American society marked by way of inhabitants shifts, technological upheavals, and a risky fiscal panorama, Keller urges leaders in larger schooling to work out and confront their very own severe problems.
With attribute forthrightness and inimitable wit, Keller ambitions serious components the place daring pondering is principally very important, taking up such explosive concerns because the configuration of educational disciplines, the runaway challenge of big-time activities, the decline of the liberal arts, and the pressing difficulties of funds and prices.
Keller anticipated this booklet to ignite dialogue and controversy inside educational circles, and he was hoping fervently that it should additionally result in genuine considering, actual research, and urgently wanted transformation.
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