Building Communities of Difference: Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century

by William G. Tierney

Book Overview

Higher education is in a time of crisis--diminishing funds, rising costs, lack of student preparation for college work, low morale among students and faculty, strained relations between faculty and administration, and confusion about curriculum and educational goals. Tierney believes that the problems are moral. He suggests that by following principles used by Gandhi and Martin Luther King, institutions of higher learning can model themselves on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897893131
• ISBN13: 9780897893138
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"