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Two Cheers For Higher Education - Why American Universities Are Stronger Than Everâ€”And How To Meet The Challenges They Face

de Steven Brint

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 Focusing on the years 1980-2015, Brint details the trajectory of American universities, which was influenced by evolving standards of disciplinary professionalism, market-driven partnerships, and the goal of social inclusion.
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The Struggle To Reform Our Colleges

de Derek Bok

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 Why efforts to improve American higher educational attainment haven't worked, and where to go from here During the first decade of this century, many commentators predicted that American higher education was about to undergo major changes that would be brought about under the stimulus of online learning and other technological advances. Toward the
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The Student Aid Game - Meeting Need And Rewarding Talent In American Higher Education

de Michael Mcpherson e Morton Schapiro

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 Student aid in higher education has become a hot-button issue. This work explains how both colleges and governments are struggling to cope with a rapidly changing marketplace, and shows how sound policies can help preserve the strengths and remedy some emerging weaknesses of American higher education.
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College - What It Was, Is, And Should Be - Second Edition

de Andrew Delbanco

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Wisdom'S Workshop - The Rise Of The Modern University

de 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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American Higher Education Since World War Ii - A History

de 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 Everâ€”And How To Meet The Challenges They Face

de 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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Our Great Purpose - Adam Smith On Living A Better Life

de Ryan Hanley

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 Hanley shows how Smith set forth a vision of the worthy life that is uniquely suited to people today. Full of invaluable insights on topics ranging from happiness and moderation to love and friendship, Our Great Purpose enables modern readers to see Smith in an entirely new light--and along the way, learn what it truly means to live a good life.life.
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The Shape Of The River - Long-Term Consequences Of Considering Race In College And University Admissions Twentieth Anniversary Edition

de Derek Bok e William G. Bowen

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"Keep The Damned Women Out" - The Struggle For Coeducation

de 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

de 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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An Academic Life - A Memoir

de 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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Winnebagos On Wednesdays - How Visionary Leadership Can Transform Higher Education

de 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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Lesson Plan - An Agenda For Change In American Higher Education

de 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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Ever The Leader - Selected Writings, 1995-2016

de 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

de 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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Locus Of Authority - The Evolution Of Faculty Roles In The Governance Of Higher Education

de 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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The History Of American Higher Education - Learning And Culture From The Founding To World War Ii

de 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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"Keep The Damned Women Out" - The Struggle For Coeducation

de Nancy Weiss Malkiel

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 As 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 brief span of time. Coeducation met with fierce resistance. As one alumnus put it in a letter to his alma ma
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Game Of Loans - The Rhetoric And Reality Of Student Debt

de Beth Akers e Matthew M. Chingos

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 College 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 headed for a major crisis, with borrowers defaulting on their loans in unprecedented numbers and taxpayers being forced to foot
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Lesson Plan - An Agenda For Change In American Higher Education

de 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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Taming The River - Negotiating The Academic, Financial, And Social Currents In Selective Colleges And Universities

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

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 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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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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Wisdom'S Workshop - The Rise Of The Modern University

de 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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