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Changes in University Education and the Roles of Liberal Education : From the Perspectives of 「Performance and Productivity Improvement Plans for Higher Education in the United States」

  • The Journal of General Education
  • 2021, (14), pp.95~113
  • DOI : 10.24173/jge.2021.01.14.4
  • Publisher : Da Vinci Mirae Institute of General Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education > Field of Education > General Education
  • Received : December 20, 2020
  • Accepted : January 18, 2021
  • Published : January 31, 2021

Kim Sung Yeon 1

1세명대학교

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ABSTRACT

Currently, Korean universities face the problem of ‘productivity’ along with problems of role acceptance as educational institutions that form the stage that follows secondary education. They no longer exist separately from secondary education. The United States, which first sensed such changes in social demands, announced a report titled 「Performance and Productivity Improvement Plans for Higher Education in the United States」, jointly written by the ‘National Center for Higher Policies and Higher Education’ and the ‘National Center of Higher Education Management Systems’ in 2007. This report handled contents that are slightly distant from the essence of education as it tried to identify higher education focused on ‘efficiency’ and ‘productivity’ problems and it presents university evaluation and incentive systems based upon the standards of academic achievement, new student recruitment rates, and student retention rates. The contents of this report are similar to the methods of Korea, which have managed the ‘productivity’ of higher education after 2010 through methods in which educational budgets are paid differentially according to university evaluations and it seems that a lot of the report reflects the university competency evaluations of Korea. When considerations are made that the educational plans of current Korean universities are established upon university evaluations of the Ministry of Education, an observation of this report’s contents will give a look into, not only the directions of higher education in the United States, but also directions for the higher education of Korea. This article attempts to search for implications by making focused observations of ‘connections of secondary and higher education’ and ‘universities as lifelong education institutes’, which are presented as university ‘productivity’ enhancement methods in the 「Performance and Productivity Improvement Plans for Higher Education in the United States 」 report. Also, it explored the meanings and roles of higher education in ‘educational pipelines’ designed as secondary-higher-lifelong learning.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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