Building the Intentional University: Minerva and the Future of Higher Education (The MIT Press) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262536196 ISBN 13: 9780262536196

Publisher: MIT Press, 2018

Synopsis

How to rebuild higher education from the ground up for the twenty-first century.

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About the Authors

Stephen M. Kosslyn is Founding Dean and Chief Academic Officer of the Minerva Schools at KGI (the Keck Graduate Institute) and John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He is the coauthor of Cognitive Psychology: Mind And Brain and the author of Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate (MIT Press).

Ben Nelson is Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Minerva. A visionary with a passion to reinvent higher education, he spent more than ten years at Snapfish, serving five years as CEO.

Bob Kerrey is Executive Chairman of the Minerva Institute for Research and Scholarship, where he advocates for broad reform in higher education. Before joining the Institute, Kerrey was President of The New School. Kerrey served as Governor of Nebraska from 1983 to 1987 and as United States Senator from Nebraska from 1989 to 2001.

Daniel J. Levitin is Founding Dean of Arts and Humanities at the Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute and James McGill Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience and Music at McGill University. He is the author of four bestselling books, including This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession.

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0262536196
• ISBN 13: 9780262536196
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 456
• Editor: Kosslyn Stephen M, Nelson Ben