What if learning was at the center of college?

Call me crazy, but I always thought that learning should be at the center of educational institutions.

Unfortunately, over the course of my teaching career, I experienced firsthand the ways that learning becomes peripheral to the way colleges and universities operate. I’ve written many times about the problem of turning education into a transaction and how that reality leads institutions astray from what should be their core missions, and prevents students from having the kinds of educational experiences that will prove lasting beyond their ability to get that first job out of college.

Getting Learning Right: The Promise of Higher Education, is a forthcoming book from a trio of professors who have been deeply invested in re-orienting the work of higher education institutions through the central lens of learning. In this guest post, they argue why and how this will have significant benefits for the broader public perception of colleges and universities. –John Warner

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