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Kester, Kevin – Journal of Transformative Education, 2017
This article examines higher education for peace inside the United Nations (UN). It offers an overview and synthesis of core concepts, organizing frameworks and theoretical premises in the field of peace and conflict studies (PACS) higher education and in the UN universities in particular, as the field aspires toward transformative learning and…
Descriptors: Peace, Criticism, Social Justice, Transformative Learning
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Macfarlane, Bruce – Higher Education Quarterly, 2013
Universities have recently strengthened their class attendance policies along with associated practices that intensify the surveillance of learning: a series of administrative and pedagogic strategies that monitor the extent to which students conform with behavioural expectations associated with learning. Drawing on university policy statements,…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Attendance, Position Papers, Accountability
Hanson, Katharine, Ed.; Meyerson, Joel W., Ed. – 1990
Three position papers, originally presented at a special symposium of economists and educators, are presented concerning the policy impact that the changing economic environment will have on colleges and universities in the financing of higher education in the United States. The position papers are: "The University and the Reemergence of…
Descriptors: Colleges, Criticism, Economic Change, Economic Impact