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College - What It Was, Is, And Should Be - Second Edition

by Andrew Delbanco

21,19€ + 10% CARD

 The strengths and failures of the American college, and why liberal education still matters As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience—an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peers—is in danger of becoming a thing of the past. In College, prominent cultural critic Andrew Delbanco offers a trenchant defense of such an education, and warns that it is becoming a privilege reserved for the relatively rich. In describing what a true college education should be, he demonstrates why making it available to as many young people as possible remains central to America''s democratic promise. In a brisk and vivid historical narrative, Delbanco explains how the idea of college arose in the colonial period from the Puritan idea of the gathered church, how it struggled to survive in the nineteenth century in the shadow of the new research universities, and how, in the twentieth century, it slowly opened its doors to women, minorities, and students from low-income families. He describes the unique strengths of America’s colleges in our era of globalization and, while recognizing the growing centrality of science, technology, and vocational subjects in the curriculum, he mounts a vigorous defense of a broadly humanistic education for all. Acknowledging the serious financial, intellectual, and ethical challenges that all colleges face today, Delbanco considers what is at stake in the urgent effort to protect these venerable institutions for future generations.
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Sacred And The Secular University

by James Turner e Jon H. Roberts

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 American higher education was transformed between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I. This work identifies the forces and explains the events that reformed the college curriculum during this era. It also examines how the study of science became detached from theological considerations.
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Promise And Dilemma - Perspectives On Racial Diversity And Higher Education

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 Issues of diversity and affirmative action have turned elite higher education in the US into contested terrain. This work gathers the reflections of a group of educators on whether and how objectives of diversity, equity, and excellence can be simultaneously pursued. It contains essays that focus on the role of social and political consensus.
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American Higher Education Since World War Ii - A History

by Roger L. Geiger

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 A masterful history of the postwar transformation of American higher educationIn the decades after World War II, as government and social support surged and enrollments exploded, the role of colleges and universities in American society changed dramatically. Roger Geiger provides an in-depth history of this remarkable transformation, taking rea
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Two Cheers For Higher Education - Why American Universities Are Stronger Than Ever—And How To Meet The Challenges They Face

by Steven Brint

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 A leading expert challenges the prevailing gloomy outlook on higher education with solid evidence of its successesCrushing student debt, rapidly eroding state funding, faculty embroiled in speech controversies, a higher-education market disrupted by online competition-today's headlines suggest that universities' power to advance knowledge and s
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Winnebagos On Wednesdays - How Visionary Leadership Can Transform Higher Education

by Scott Cowen

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 Why a strong mission and inspired leadership are vital to the success of America's colleges and universitiesIn 1998, soon after assuming the presidency of Tulane University, Scott Cowen was confronted with a setback. Despite an undefeated football season and putting the best financial deal on the table, Cowen was unable to retain the school's
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Academic Life - A Memoir

by Hanna Holborn Gray

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 A compelling memoir by the first woman president of a major American universityHanna Holborn Gray has lived her entire life in the world of higher education. The daughter of academics, she fled Hitler's Germany with her parents in the 1930s, emigrating to New Haven, where her father was a professor at Yale University. She has studied and taught
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Ever The Leader - Selected Writings, 1995-2016

by William G. Bowen

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 Ever the Leader gathers together selected speeches and writings from one of the great scholars and commentators of higher education. William G. Bowen's career at Princeton University--from economics professor to provost to a sixteen-year tenure as president--was marked by extraordinary accomplishments during times of great change, both at the unive
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Pathways To Reform - Credits And Conflict At The City University Of New York

by Alexandra W. Logue

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 A personal account of the implementation of a controversial credit transfer program at the nation's third-largest university Change is notoriously difficult in any large organization. Institutions of higher education are no exception. From 2010 to 2013, Alexandra Logue, then chief academic officer of The City University of New York, led a controve
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&Quote;Keep The Damned Women Out&Quote; - The Struggle For Coeducation

by Nancy Weiss Malkiel

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 A groundbreaking history of how elite colleges and universities in America and Britain finally went coedAs the tumultuous decade of the 1960s ended, a number of very traditional, very conservative, highly prestigious colleges and universities in the United States and the United Kingdom decided to go coed, seemingly all at once, in a remarkably
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Game Of Loans - The Rhetoric And Reality Of Student Debt

by Beth Akers e Matthew M. Chingos

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 Why fears about a looming student loan crisis are unfounded-and how they obscure what's really wrong with student lendingCollege tuition and student debt levels have been rising at an alarming pace for at least two decades. These trends, coupled with an economy weakened by a major recession, have raised serious questions about whether we are he
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Lesson Plan - An Agenda For Change In American Higher Education

by Michael Mcpherson e William G. Bowen

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 American higher education faces some serious problems--but they are not the ones most people think. In this brief and accessible book, two leading experts show that many so-called crises--from the idea that typical students are drowning in debt to the belief that tuition increases are being driven by administrative bloat--are exaggerated or simply
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Wisdom'S Workshop - The Rise Of The Modern University

by James Axtell

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 When universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom's special workshop." He could not have foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop. Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite research university from its roots in medieval Europe to its remarkable incarnation today, Wisdom's Workshop
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Universities And Their Leadership

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 On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of Princeton University, leading educators and commentators participated in a symposium jointly sponsored by Princeton and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Universities and Their Leadership is a collection of original essays from presenters at the Princeton Conference on Higher Education. Individually, these
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Higher Education In The Digital Age - Updated Edition

by William G. Bowen

18,54€ + 10% CARD

 Two of the most visible and important trends in higher education today are its exploding costs and the rapid expansion of online learning. Could the growth in online courses slow the rising cost of college and help solve the crisis of affordability? In this short and incisive book, William G. Bowen, one of the foremost experts on the intersection o
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Higher Education In America - Revised Edition

by Derek Bok

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 Higher Education in America is a landmark work--a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the current condition of our colleges and universities from former Harvard president Derek Bok, one of the nation's most respected education experts. Sweepingly ambitious in scope, this is a deeply informed and balanced assessment of the many strengths as
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Locus Of Authority - The Evolution Of Faculty Roles In The Governance Of Higher Education

by Eugene M. Tobin e William G. Bowen

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 Do higher education institutions have what it takes to reform effectively from within? Locus of Authority argues that every issue facing today's colleges and universities, from stagnant degree completion rates to worrisome cost increases, is exacerbated by a century-old system of governance that desperately requires change. While prior studies have
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History Of American Higher Education - Learning And Culture From The Founding To World War Ii

by Roger L. Geiger

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 This book tells the compelling saga of American higher education from the founding of Harvard College in 1636 to the outbreak of World War II. The most in-depth and authoritative history of the subject available, The History of American Higher Education traces how colleges and universities were shaped by the shifting influences of culture, the emer
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Taming The River - Negotiating The Academic, Financial, And Social Currents In Selective Colleges And Universities

by Camille Z. Charles, Douglas S. Massey, Margarita A. Mooney e Mary J. Fischer

37,10€ + 10% CARD

 Building on their important findings in The Source of the River, the authors now probe even more deeply into minority underachievement at the college level. Taming the River examines the academic and social dynamics of different ethnic groups during the first two years of college. Focusing on racial differences in academic performance, the book ide
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Down From Bureaucracy - The Ambiguity Of Privatization And Empowerment

by Joel F. Handler

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 Throughout the world, politicians are dismantling state enterprises and heaping praise on private markets, while in the United States a new rhetoric of "citizen empowerment" links a widespread distrust of government to decentralization and privatization. Here Joel Handler asks whether this restructuring of authority really allows ordinary citizens to take more control of the things that matter in their roles as parents and children, teachers and students, tenants and owners, producers and consumers. Looking at citizens as stakeholders in the modern social welfare state created by the New Deal, he traces the surprising ideological shifts of empowerment from its beginning as a cornerstone of the war on poverty in the 1960s to its central place in conservative market-based voucher schemes for school reform in the 1990s. Handler shows that in the past the gains from decentralization have proved to be more symbol than substance: some disadvantaged members of society will find new opportunities in the changes of the 1990s, but others will simply experience powerlessness under another name. He carefully distinguishes "empowerment by invitation" (in special education, worker safety, home health care, public housing tenancy, and neighborhood organizations) from the "empowerment by conflict" exemplified by the radical decentralization of the Chicago public schools. What emerges is a map of the major pitfalls and possible successes in the current journey away from a discredited regulatory state.
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Philology - The Forgotten Origins Of The Modern Humanities

by James Turner

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 Many today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and literature, as well as history, culture, art, and more. In short, philology was the queen of the human sci
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Great Brain Race - How Global Universities Are Reshaping The World

by Ben Wildavsky

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 Presents an account of how international competition for the brightest minds is transforming the world of higher education - and why this revolution should be welcomed, not feared.
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Game Of Life - College Sports And Educational Values

by James L. Shulman e William G. Bowen

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 Drawing on historical research, this work demonstrates how athletics influence the class composition and campus ethos of selective schools, as well as the messages that these institutions send to prospective students, their parents, and society at large. It shows that athletic programs raise even more difficult questions of educational policy.
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Reclaiming The Game - College Sports And Educational Values

by Sarah A. Levin e William G. Bowen

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 Features evidence that recruited athletes 'underperform': they do even less well academically than predicted by their test scores and high school grades. This book examines the forces that drive this process and presents proposals for reform. It argues for re-establishing athletics as a means of fulfilling the educational missions of our colleges.
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