MARC Record from Western Washington University

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050 00 $aLA227.4$b.D45 2005
245 00 $aDeclining by degrees :$bhigher education at risk /$cedited by Richard Hersh and John Merrow ; foreword by Tom Wolfe.
260 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$cc2005.
300 $axi, 244 p. ;$c25 cm.
500 $aCompanion PBS documentary, with same title, available on DVD.
505 5 $aThe 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.
500 $aIncludes index.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aEducation, Higher$zUnited States.
700 1 $aHersh, Richard H.,$d1942-
700 1 $aMerrow, John.
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