"The authors present the results of a large-scale study of American colleges, and offer recommendations for rethinking and restructuring the delivery of liberal arts education"--
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This book gave me an appreciation for the power of research to inform how we understand what is needed and how we can shape the future, particularly with something as complex as the future of higher education. I�m really happy I had the opportunity to read The Real World of College and I was moved by the rigor and simplicity of the authors� approach. Fishman and Gardner examine the critical role that higher education can serve for students (particularly in the times we are living in), and do so in a way that examines deeply where students are coming, allowing the authors to offer practical solutions that connect the dots between our highest aspirations and the reality of students� lives. The rigor is also in the breadth of the research, their broad examination of students� lives the most pressing issues they face, and the all the stakeholders they consider as part of an ecosystem.
Through their research, the authors uncovered four lenses or ââ?¬Å"mindsetsââ?¬Â? with which students think about and relate to college. Knowing how students fundamentally relate to college gives us fundamental information for how to engage with their reality. The book offers a way to connect our idealism for what education can accomplish to the reality, rather than pursuing an ideal that does not directly relate to the world of college.
I worry that people will miss the deeper message in this book and underestimate the power of the practical suggestions offered by the authors. I worry about this because understanding the value of their suggestions requires that we take a more penetrating look at the purpose of a college education not just in how it will serve the individuals (prepare them for career, give them a broad education) but how it will meet this moment in history. It is only with this mindset that we can have room to consider the bigger implications and the foundational changes that we need to make and therefore appreciate the massive endeavor of the research that went into this book.
This book makes a worthy case for the role of college because it addresses the real world of college, and considers the purpose of college in shaping the future. Even if in reading this book you think the ideas are difficult to implement, it is so powerful to have a ââ?¬Å"realââ?¬Â? response to the role college can/should play today. At the very least it can engage us educators in an authentic dialogue and contemplation of the future of higher education. And at its best it can be a step towards a world where education can truly matter both for the future of the individuals and for our collective future.
