Andrew Delbanco

College

What It Was, Is, and Should Be - Second Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The strengths and failures of the American college, and why liberal education still matters As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience-an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peers-is in danger of becoming a thing of the past. In College, prominent cultural critic Andrew Delbanco offers a trenchant defense of such an education, and warns that it is becoming a privilege reserved for the relatively rich. In describing what a true college education should be, he demonstrates why making it available to as many young people as possible remains central to America's democratic promise. In a brisk and vivid historical narrative, Delbanco explains how the idea of college arose in the colonial period from the Puritan idea of the gathered church, how it struggled to survive in the nineteenth century in the shadow of the new research universities, and how, in the twentieth century, it slowly opened its doors to women, minorities, and students from low-income families. He describes the unique strengths of America's colleges in our era of globalization and, while recognizing the growing centrality of science, technology, and vocational subjects in the curriculum, he mounts a vigorous defense of a broadly humanistic education for all. Acknowledging the serious financial, intellectual, and ethical challenges that all colleges face today, Delbanco considers what is at stake in the urgent effort to protect these venerable institutions for future generations.

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Produktdetails

• The William G. Bowen Series
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 132mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9780691246376
• ISBN-10: 0691246378
• Artikelnr.: 66226705

Autorenporträt

Andrew Delbanco With a new chapter on college after the pandemic

Rezensionen

"A thoughtful and insightful look at American college's exceptionalism and pitfalls. . . . Whether you're in college, thinking about college or just paying for it, it's a good read to help better understand one of America's oldest and finest institutions. And if we want it to stay that way, we all better get schooled about it."---Kacie Flynn, Vox Magazine, Missourian