The Higher

my parents that, regions in Europe offered Higher Education for free and all you need to present is your effort, they looked at me with an astonished face expression. They told me stories about how they were adolescents and had to drop out of their schools, They said, “If we had the chance to go to college then we would take the opportunity right away”, because they needed to support their families they couldn’t pursue their dreams.. The Benefits of Higher education are far more positive than…

The second half of the assigned readings from our textbooks, American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century by authors Altbach, P., Gumport, P., and Berdahl, R. (2011) and Organizational Theory in Higher Education by Manning, K. (2012) have given greater knowledge and understanding of the American higher education issues and organizational theories. Altbach et al. (2011) stated, higher education institution have changed and adapted to new circumstances, with the most significant changes…

The Evolution of Higher Education Since the Nineteenth Century At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Americans viewed higher education as a vehicle for what Geiger (2014) calls “social reproduction” (p. 540). Cultural shifts and advancement in knowledge affected university’s curricula, mission, and student life (Geiger, 2014). Many of these changes allowed for colleges to advance and begin resembling institutions in the United States today. Scientific Knowledge The growth of…

Functions of Leadership in Higher Education Identifying an exact, universal definition of leadership is a conundrum plaguing researchers in higher education. The definitions are as vast as administrative responsibilities. Bolman and Gallos (2008) attempt to defined leadership as, “Leading is a social process that involves relationships of influence, learning, and exchange” (p. 10). While the responsibilities of postsecondary administrators are too infinite to list, the following will describe…

Flaws in Higher Education Higher education is no longer an opportunity for people, students or anyone to expand their knowledge. It has become a business for schools to make more money by using students. The issues with higher education has been rapidly getting worse over the past ten years. The three biggest Issues with higher educations are: corrupt faculty, lack of student’s motivation, and marketization of amenities that distract from the focus of obtaining an education. There are…

drives education, and higher learning institutions and educators alike must be proactive in making higher education more accessible and attainable. Online Learning (OL) is a fast growing trend and it is opening doors in more ways than one for many students. Higher education through the traditional means can be difficult and costly; in contrast, OL has revolutionized the learning process, it has become the panacea to higher learning. OL is a unique alternative to conventional higher education;…

emotionally, and everyday necessities to live. An area that struggling financially affects people, but is often overlooked, is education. Academic success influences low-income families who pursue a higher education. Each member from our group comes from a low-income background while at the same time striving for a higher education and a chance to move away from this economic instability. To investigate whether coming from a low-income background affects student’s academic success, we had to…

Higher Learning and Learners Curriculum Curriculum at institutions of higher education during the colonial period in America (1636-1789) focused on utilitarian subjects such as the Classics (like Latin), rhetoric, and math (Marsden, 1994). These same subjects continued into the antebellum period (1789-1861). While the Yale Report defended the classical curriculum of Greek, Latin, and math, many colleges (especially women’s colleges) preferred to emphasize English and modern languages.…

Progressing Knowledge and Ethics Through Importance of Higher Education: An Annotated Bibliography Billitteri, T. J. (2009, November 20). The Value of a College Education. CQ Researcher, 19, 981-1004. Retrieved from http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/ By the title of this article you would assume that the author, Thomas Billitteri, stands on one side of the fence on this issue, a strongly pro-college side which goes along with all the people that think you need an education to be…

Higher education has been in the new a lot recently. Steadily increasing college tuition rates have been sending many parents and potential college graduates into a quagmire. Student debt for many people are dragging them down for years or even decades after completing college degrees. This is a clear and obvious problem affecting our country, but how do we fix this? A radical yet popular opinion is to make colleges free and debtless. This idea has existed for years, but the current presidential…