An edition of Declining by degrees (2005)

Declining by degrees

higher education at risk

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An edition of Declining by degrees (2005)

Declining by degrees

higher education at risk

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Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Pages
244

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Declining by degrees: higher education at risk
2005, Palgrave Macmillan
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Table of Contents

The media : degrees of coverage / Gene I. Maeroff
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.

Edition Notes

Companion PBS documentary, with same title, available on DVD.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
LA227.4 .D45 2005, LA227.4.D45 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 244 p. ;
Number of pages
244

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL15574748M
Internet Archive
isbn_9781403973160
ISBN 10
1403969213
LCCN
2005043024
OCLC/WorldCat
57594049
Library Thing
931923
Goodreads
860930

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