Browsing by Subject "public good"

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    The Global Common Good and the Future of Academic Professionals
    (Higher Learning Research Communications, 2011-10-31) Shaker, Genevieve G.
    In this epilogue to the special issue of Higher Learning Research Communications dedicated to higher education, community engagement, and the public good, Shaker addresses the unifying concept presented across the issue: the common good. For Shaker, this special issue responds to UNESCO’s call for educational institutions and educators to rethink education in the contemporary era and focuses on how academic endeavors can, do, and should act in service to a global common good. The essay stresses the academic workforce needs to be reimagined concurrently with rethinking the systems of education that will ensure the world and society “to which we aspire.” Faculty in all their diversity are the central and essential ingredient to a successful global educational response to the challenges of an equitable and just global society will create and disseminate the knowledge society needs. To close, Shaker notes publications such as this bring these conversations into sharper focus to align and connect them so that a rethought approach to higher education might generate discernible results within the relatively short time available.
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    The public good, productivity and purpose [Summary Report]
    (TIAA Institute, 2016) Shaker, Genevieve G.; Plater, William M.
    The TIAA Institute commissioned two papers to address the question of how to demonstrate higher education’s contribution to the public good. Genevieve Shaker, editor of a book on faculty and the public good, and William Plater, an emeritus provost, explore higher education’s institutional responsibility to deliver civic value. A companion piece addresses the issue from the perspective of individual faculty members. Another recent article by Shaker and Plater speaks specifically to the responsibility of trustees to ensure higher education’s commitment to the public is met.
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    The public good, productivity and purpose: New economic models for higher education
    (TIAA Institute, 2016) Shaker, Genevieve G.; Plater, William M.
    This paper is one of five in the TIAA Institute Higher Education Series: Understanding Academic Productivity, an initiative undertaken in support of NACUBO’s Economic Models Project. That project was launched by NACUBO with the aim to provide colleges and universities with knowledge, ideas and tools to advance the difficult structural, cultural and political changes required for moving to more sustainable economic models. Given NACUBO’s goal of offering thoughtful, objective and credible scholarship on the issues at hand, the TIAA Institute was a natural partner for the project. This paper, written by Genevieve Shaker, author of a recent book on faculty and the public good, and William Plater, an emeritus provost and faculty member, explores the question of how to account for enhancement of the “public good” in the academic productivity equation. The authors address that question here from the perspective of institutional responsibility to deliver civic value; their companion paper, also a part of this series, looks at the issue from the perspective of individual faculty members. Their thoughtful work will help to enrich and elevate the complicated discussions surrounding academic productivity that senior campus leaders face.