Indian Statistical Institute Library, Kolkata

Your cart is empty.

Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)
Library,Documentation and Information Science Division

“A research journal serves that narrow

borderland which separates the known from the unknown”

-P.C.Mahalanobis


Normal view MARC view ISBD view

The quest for quality : [electronic resource] the challenge for undergraduate education in the 1990s / Lewis B. Mayhew, Patrick J. Ford, Dean L. Hubbard.

By: Mayhew, Lewis B.
Contributor(s): Ford, Patrick Joseph, 1941- | Hubbard, Dean Leon.
Material type: TextTextSeries: The Jossey-Bass higher education series. Publisher: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 1990Edition: 1st ed.Description: xxv, 292 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 1555422543; 9781555422547.Subject(s): Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States | Education, Higher -- Curricula -- United States | College teachers -- United States | Universities and colleges -- Accreditation -- United States | Enseignement supérieur -- États-Unis -- Finalités | Enseignement supérieur -- États-Unis -- Programmes d'études | Professeurs (Enseignement supérieur) -- États-Unis | Universités -- États-Unis -- Agrément | Höhere Schule | USAAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Quest for quality.DDC classification: 378.1/99/0973 Online resources: Free eBook from the Internet Archive | Additional information and access via Open Library
Contents:
Part 1: Forces affecting quality in undergraduate education -- The challenges to educational quality since World War II -- Current perspectives on academic quality -- The undergraduate curriculum and general education -- Part 2: An agenda for strengthening academic quality -- Reforming the curriculum -- Streamlining extracurricular services -- Maintaining a high-quality professoriate -- Foresting competent teaching -- Strengthening academic leadership -- Rethinking decision-making roles and authority -- Part 3: Monitoring quality -- The role of accreditation -- Governing boards and coordinating agencies -- Strengthening undergraduate education: a national imperative.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
No physical items for this record

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-282) and index.

Part 1: Forces affecting quality in undergraduate education -- The challenges to educational quality since World War II -- Current perspectives on academic quality -- The undergraduate curriculum and general education -- Part 2: An agenda for strengthening academic quality -- Reforming the curriculum -- Streamlining extracurricular services -- Maintaining a high-quality professoriate -- Foresting competent teaching -- Strengthening academic leadership -- Rethinking decision-making roles and authority -- Part 3: Monitoring quality -- The role of accreditation -- Governing boards and coordinating agencies -- Strengthening undergraduate education: a national imperative.

There are no comments for this item.

Log in to your account to post a comment.
Library, Documentation and Information Science Division, Indian Statistical Institute, 203 B T Road, Kolkata 700108, INDIA
Phone no. 91-33-2575 2100, Fax no. 91-33-2578 1412, ksatpathy@isical.ac.in


Visitor Counter

IMPLEMENTED BY- AVIOR TECHNOLOGIES