Richard H. Hersh, John Merrow

Declining by Degrees (eBook, ePUB)

Higher Education at Risk
Redaktion: Hersh, Richard H.; Merrow, John

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What is actually happening on college campuses in the years between admission and graduation?

Not enough to keep America competitive, and not enough to provide our citizens with fulfilling lives.

When A Nation at Risk called attention to the problems of our public schools in 1983, that landmark report provided a convenient "cover" for higher education, inadvertently implying that all was well on America's campuses.

Declining by Degrees blows higher education's cover. It asks tough--and long overdue--questions about our colleges and universities. In candid, coherent, and ultimately provocative ways, Declining by Degrees reveals:
- how students are being short-changed by lowered academic expectations and standards;
-why many universities focus on research instead of teaching and spend more on recruiting and athletics than on salaries for professors;
-why students are disillusioned;
-how administrations are obsessed with rankings in news magazines rather than the quality of learning;
-why the media ignore the often catastrophic results; and
-how many professors and students have an unspoken "non-aggression pact" when it comes to academic effort.

Declining by Degrees argues persuasively that the multi-billion dollar enterprise of higher education has gone astray. At the same time, these essays offer specific prescriptions for change, warning that our nation is in fact at greater risk if we do nothing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: St. Martin's Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781466893382
• Artikelnr.: 42531926

Autorenporträt

Edited by Richard H. Hersh and John Merrow; Foreword by Tom Wolfe

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Tom Wolfe * Introduction
Richard H. Hersh & John Merrow * Extra, Extra, Don't Read All about It
Gene I. Maeroff * Degrees of Indifference? Where the Public Stands on Higher Education
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 (A Personal Apology)
Murray Sperber * College Sports: America's New Peculiar Institution
Frank Deford * Worlds Apart: Disconnects between Students and Their Colleges
Arthur Levine * Leaving the Newcomers Behind
Roberto Suro & Richard Fry * Talking the Talk: Rhetoric & Reality for Students of Color
Heather D. Washington * It's 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 * Afterword
Richard H. Hersh * Afterword
John Merrow