Communicate for a Change - Revitalizing Conversations for Higher Education

This is a different kind of book: a call for courageous conversations focusing on nine taboo subjects that bedevil higher education.

For nearly a decade, distinguished scholars Lori Carrell and Robert Zemsky have been having frank conversations with each other-and with colleagues and friends-about the state of higher education. In Communicate for a Change, they bring together nine of their most insightful conversations to explore difficult questions that today''s administrators, trustees, and faculty members too frequently avoid.

Why, Carrell and Zemsky ask, is it so hard to talk about the mess that higher education is in? And how can we refocus the conversation on what really matters, grappling with taboo subjects in a way that helps to revitalize higher education from the inside out? Grounded in the real, as opposed to the rhetorical, importance of community in making change, these revealing conversations also explore

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