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Higher Education In America
Derek Bok
Princeton University Press
September 2013
On Sale: August 25, 2013
496 pages ISBN: 0691159149 EAN: 9780691159140 Kindle: B00E97CJ1I Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
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 well as the weaknesses of American higher
education today. At a time when colleges and universities
have never been more important to the lives and
opportunities of students or to the progress and prosperity
of the nation, Bok provides a thorough examination of the
entire system, public and private, from community colleges
and small liberal arts colleges to great universities with
their research programs and their medical, law, and business
schools. Drawing on the most reliable studies and data, he
determines which criticisms of higher education are
unfounded or exaggerated, which are issues of genuine
concern, and what can be done to improve matters. Some
of the subjects considered are long-standing, such as
debates over the undergraduate curriculum and concerns over
rising college costs. Others are more recent, such as the
rise of for-profit institutions and massive open online
courses (MOOCs). Additional topics include the quality of
undergraduate education, the stagnating levels of college
graduation, the problems of university governance, the
strengths and weaknesses of graduate and professional
education, the environment for research, and the benefits
and drawbacks of the pervasive competition among American
colleges and universities. Offering a rare survey and
evaluation of American higher education as a whole, this
book provides a solid basis for a fresh public discussion
about what the system is doing right, what it needs to do
better, and how the next quarter century could be made a
period of progress rather than decline.
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Re: Higher Education In America
good one. (Kirk Kirby 4:01am April 9, 2016)
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