--- product_id: 14077917 title: "Checklist for Change: Making American Higher Education a Sustainable Enterprise" price: "AR$105811" currency: ARS in_stock: true reviews_count: 6 url: https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/14077917-checklist-for-change-making-american-higher-education-a-sustainable-enterprise store_origin: AR region: Argentina --- # Focus on practical, systemic change In-depth education reform analysis Timely, actionable recommendations Checklist for Change: Making American Higher Education a Sustainable Enterprise **Price:** AR$105811 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📖 Transform education, transform the future — don’t get left behind! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Checklist for Change: Making American Higher Education a Sustainable Enterprise - **How much does it cost?** AR$105811 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.ar](https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/14077917-checklist-for-change-making-american-higher-education-a-sustainable-enterprise) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Perfect for Change-Makers:** Ideal for educators, administrators, and policy influencers ready to lead the next wave of higher education reform. - • **A Call to Collective Action:** Understand why systemic change demands combined efforts in federal aid, competition, curriculum, and faculty governance. - • **Blueprint for Sustainable Change:** Discover concrete, multi-institutional case studies that model the future of coherent, outcome-driven curricula. - • **Expert Insight from a Thought Leader:** Gain perspectives from Robert Zemsky, a recognized authority dubbed the God-father of American Higher Education. - • **Unpack the Roots of Reform Resistance:** Explore the hidden origins and impacts of landmark policies like the Morrill Act and GI Bill shaping today's challenges. ## Overview Checklist for Change offers a rigorous diagnosis of American higher education’s systemic issues and delivers practical, multi-faceted reform strategies. Authored by Robert Zemsky, a leading expert, this book combines historical policy analysis with real-world case studies to inspire sustainable transformation in curriculum design, federal aid, and governance. ## Description Almost every day American higher education is making news with a list of problems that includes the incoherent nature of the curriculum, the resistance of the faculty to change, and the influential role of the federal government both through major investments in student aid and intrusive policies. Checklist for Change not only diagnoses these problems, but also provides constructive recommendations for practical change. Robert Zemsky details the complications that have impeded every credible reform intended to change American higher education. He demythologizes such initiatives as the Morrill Act, the GI Bill, and the Higher Education Act of 1972, shedding new light on their origins and the ways they have shaped higher education in unanticipated and not commonly understood ways. Next, he addresses overly simplistic arguments about the causes of the problems we face and builds a convincing argument that well-intentioned actions have combined to create the current mess for which everyone is to blame. Using provocative case studies, Zemsky describes the reforms being implemented at a few institutions with the hope that these might serve as harbingers of the kinds of change needed: the University of Minnesota at Rochester’s compact curriculum in the health sciences only, Whittier College’s emphasis on learning outcomes, and the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh’s coherent overall curriculum. In conclusion, Zemsky describes the principal changes that must occur not singly but in combination. These include a fundamental recasting of federal financial aid; new mechanisms for better channeling the competition among colleges and universities; recasting the undergraduate curriculum; and a stronger, more collective faculty voice in governance that defines not why, but how the enterprise must change. Review: Reality meets Higher Education - Straight-shooting, clear and "experienced" perspectives from the individual who must be considered a God-father of American Higher Education. Review: Worth a Close Read - This is a reasoned and timely set of detailed recommendations on how concerned educators and administrators can begin to mend America's broken, failing, and truly disappointing education system - from a number of angles. Consider it a call to action - for all of us. ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #4,595,959 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #4,051 in Education Reform & Policy #27,393 in Public Affairs & Policy Politics Books #44,937 in Higher & Continuing Education | | Customer Reviews | 3.9 out of 5 stars 9 Reviews | ## Images ![Checklist for Change: Making American Higher Education a Sustainable Enterprise - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41sxkbavlnL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reality meets Higher Education *by K***D on January 16, 2017* Straight-shooting, clear and "experienced" perspectives from the individual who must be considered a God-father of American Higher Education. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Worth a Close Read *by M***S on November 22, 2013* This is a reasoned and timely set of detailed recommendations on how concerned educators and administrators can begin to mend America's broken, failing, and truly disappointing education system - from a number of angles. Consider it a call to action - for all of us. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Quick read of well-intended higher education reform initiative that would ... *by W***D on April 25, 2015* Quick read of well-intended higher education reform initiative that would a gored too many oxen. 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