ORLH+4010+Purposes+and+Policies+of+Higher+Education

Professor: Arthur M. Langer (TC)

Syllabus


Course description
This course will provide a macro-framework to examine higher education in the United States. The objectives of the course are three-fold in nature: 1) to furnish a general historical overview of the evolution and the changing structure of higher education in America; 2) to survey the existing political and economic theories in the social sciences used to understand the purposes and policies of higher education; and 3) to identify the critical issues presently confronting university and college administrators, faculty and students, as well as to outline some of the long-term economic and policy trends in American higher education for the twenty-first century.