Daniel Rosenberg

Between Mission and Market

The Freshman Year in a Corporate Age

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book confronts some of the main controversies in higher education, particularly those affecting first-year students: high-stakes testing in general (particularly the SAT), the intensification of student debt and the financial sentence imposed upon all who incur it, and the dramatic pressures placed upon freshmen as they transition to college.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9781498532662
• ISBN-10: 1498532667
• Artikelnr.: 47705023

Autorenporträt

By Daniel Rosenberg

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Lessons of a Freshman Program
Chapter 1: College as Big Business Chapter 2: The Crisis of the SAT Chapter
3: The Freshman Landscape Chapter 4: Roots of the General Studies Program
at Adelphi Chapter 5: The Program Defines Itself Chapter 6: The Struggle
for Survival Chapter 7: The Grades of General Studies Students Chapter 8:
College Graduation and High School Average Chapter 9: The SATs and General
Studies Chapter 10: Demographics and General Studies Conclusion: Can
General Studies Endure? Bibliography About the Author