首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
The Carnegie Foundation report says that many colleges have tried to be "all things to all people". In doing so, they have incre
The Carnegie Foundation report says that many colleges have tried to be "all things to all people". In doing so, they have incre
admin
2009-01-05
61
问题
The Carnegie Foundation report says that many colleges have tried to be "all things to all people". In doing so, they have increasingly catered to a narrow-minded careerism while failing to cultivate a global vision among their students. The current crisis, it contends, does not derive from a legitimate desire to put learning to productive ends. The problem is that in too many academic fields, the work has no context; skills, rather than being means, have become ends. Students are offered a variety of options and allowed to pick their way to a degree. In short, driven by careerism, "the national colleges and universities are more successful in providing credentials than in providing a quality education for their students." The report concludes that the special challenge confronting the undergraduate college is one of shaping an "integrated core" of common learning. Such a core would introduce students "to essential knowledge, to connections across the disciplines, and in the end, to application of knowledge to life beyond the campus".
Although the key to a good college is a high-quality faculty, the Carnegie study found that most colleges do very little to encourage good teaching. In fact, they do much to undermine it. As one professor observed: "Teaching is important, we are told, and yet faculty know that research and publication matter most." Not surprisingly, over the last twenty years colleges and universities have failed to graduate half of their four-year degree candidates. Faculty members who dedicate themselves to teaching soon discover that they will not be granted tenure, promotion, or substantial salary increases. Yet 70 percent of all faculty say their interests lie among more in teaching than in research. Additionally, a frequent complaint among young scholars is that "There is pressure to publish, although there is virtually no interest among administrators or colleagues in the content of the publications."
American colleges and universities failed to graduate half of their four-year degree candidates because ______.
选项
A、most of them lack high-quality faculties
B、the interests of most faculty members lie in research
C、there are not enough incentives for students to study hard
D、they attach greater importance to research and publication than to teaching
答案
D
解析
要点归纳题。此题是考查因果关系的,根据题干可知相关内容在第二段。联系上下文可发现“Teaching is important,we are told,and yet faculty know that research and publication matter most”即是造成这种结果的原因。而选项D的表述与之相符合。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/PvBK777K
0
专业英语四级
相关试题推荐
Losingweightiseasierwhenthereismoneyontheline,U.S.researcherssaidonTuesday.Theysaidweight-lossprogramsthat
Thebookisdead.Technologyhaskilledit.Thelibrariesoftheworldaredoomingtobecomemuseums.Americans,however,【M1】___
Todaywomenearnalmost60percentofallbachelor’sdegreesandmorethanhalfofmaster’sandPh.D.’s.Manypeoplebelieveth
Todaywomenearnalmost60percentofallbachelor’sdegreesandmorethanhalfofmaster’sandPh.D.’s.Manypeoplebelieveth
Nowadays,manyparentschoosehomeschoolingasanewwaytoteachtheirchildrenratherthansendthemtopublicschools.Isthe
Psycholinguisticsisthestudyofthepsychologicalprocessesinvolvedinlanguage.Psycholinguistsstudyunderstanding,produc
Inthepast,degreeswereveryunusualinmyfamily.Today,fiveofmybrothersandsistershavedegrees,andtwoarestudying
EliasHoweMostinventionscomefromlonghours--sometimesyears--ofwork./Atothertimestheycamefromjustabitofluck
TheRussianofficial’svisittoChinaaimsat______.
DivorceInarbitration,thedivorcecaseispresentedtoaneutralpartycalledanarbitratorwho,likeajudge,hasthepo
随机试题
A.少海B.血海C.照海D.小海E.气海
A.支气管哮喘B.喘息型慢性支气管炎C.支气管肺癌D.肺炎支原体肺炎E.克雷伯杆菌肺炎常于秋季发病,儿童和青年人多见,起病缓慢。阵发性干咳、发热、肌痛,胸片示下叶间质性肺炎改变
奸党罪
()主要是指将组织的目标与成员的个人目标相结合,在更深远的层次上激发成员潜能的活动。
下列会计电算化梢案安全和保密措施不正确的是()。
关于会计记录文字论述,下列说{击中错误的是()。
转授权金额不得大于原授权,但在某些特定业务品种上可以突破。()
全陪在接团前准备阶段的工作主要包括()等内容。
定义两种运算:,则函数的奇偶性为________。
选项四个图形中,只有一个是由题干四个图形拼合而成的,请选出来。
最新回复
(
0
)