Degrees of Value: Technology, Markets, and the Aims of Education
Liberal Education
Spring 2001
Volume 87, Number 2
CONTENTS:
President's Message
Caveat Emptor by Carol Schneider
Two current visions of educational change, the Cyber-Cafeteria Curriculum and the High Standards Agenda,
present competing ideas about student learning. Technology's potential for student learning requires attention
to specific standards and strategies such as faculty guidance and a structure that moves students to progressively
more advanced accomplishment.
Featured Topic: Markets, and the Aims of Education
Technology, Markets, and the New Political Economy of Higher Education By Sheila Slaughter, Jeffrey Kittay, and Paul Duguid
How technology driven by market forces is affecting the academy, the professoriate, and the notion of lifelong
learning constitutes a picture of current trends and practices as indicators of future higher education.
Voices from the Annual Meeting: Eve Stoddard
eBlack: Facing up to the Digital Divide in Higher Education By Abdul Alkalimat
The information revolution, unlike earlier agrarian and industrial revolutions, holds the promise of bringing
about cyberdemocracy for minorities that includes both access and empowerment to serve the user's purposes.
Voices from the Annual Meeting: Jane Fountain
Preparing Future Faculty for Future Universities By James J. Duderstadt
Economic, technological, and social changes are driving changes in the university. Is today's form of graduate
education preparing the future faculty for a twenty-first century "society of learning"?
Voices from the Annual Meeting: Robert Weisbuch
Perspectives
Liberal Learning as Conversation By John B. Bennett
The values of liberal learning can be represented by the values that mark conversation: participation, engagement,
openness to others.
Assessing Quality in American Higher Education By Douglas Bennett
Although their objectives and methods differ, various reports that assess institutional quality and learning
claim widespread attention. By comparing and evaluating these methods for their usefulness, the need for
more effective tools emerges.
Justifying Preparing Future Faculty Programs By Ron Lee
The motivation to incorporate programs for readying graduate students for the professoriate parallels motivation
in other areas of life. Addressing objections to such changes requires a comprehensive look at the state
of the profession into which graduate students will be hired.
My View
Managing Time in a Liberal Education: A Parent's Perspective By Eugenia Gerdes
Teaching students how to use time would enhance their college learning. Students can become more self-conscious
about the management of time with a little help from their professors.
