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Title:

Declining by degrees : higher education at risk / edited by Richard H. Hersh and John Merrow ; foreword by Tom Wolfe.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xi, 244 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Education, Higher--United States.
Hoger onderwijs.
Titulatuur.
Kwaliteitscontrole.
Enseignement supérieur--États-Unis.

Other Authors:

Hersh, Richard H., 1942-
Merrow, John.

Notes:

Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Afterword : What difference does a college make? / Richard H. Hersh. Ready or not? Where the public stands on higher education reform / Deborah Wadsworth -- College admissions : a substitute for quality? / James Fallows -- Caveat Lector : unexamined assumptions about quality in higher education / Jay Mathews -- Liberal education : slip-sliding away? / Carol G. Schneider -- Six challenges to the American university / Vartan Gregorian -- Beyond markets and individuals : a focus on educational goals / Howard Gardner -- This little student went to market / David L. Kirp -- How undergraduate education became college lite--and a personal apology / Murray Sperber -- America's modern peculiar institution / Frank Deford -- Worlds apart : disconnects between students and their colleges / Arthur Levine -- Leaving the newcomers behind / Roberto Suro and Richard Fry -- Talking the talk : rhetoric and reality for students of color / Heather D. Wathington -- It is only a port of call : reflections on the state of higher education / Julie Johnson Kidd -- The curriculum and college life : confronting unfulfilled promises / Leon Botstein -- Afterword : What difference does a college make? / Richard H. Hersh.

ISBN:

9781403969217
1403969213

LCCN:

2005043024

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

P1AX906 -- Indian Hills Community College Library - Ottumwa (Ottumwa)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

UVAX975 -- Western Iowa Tech Library (Sioux City)

UUAX975 -- Briar Cliff University - Mueller Library (Sioux City)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)