What's college for? : the struggle to define American higher education / Zachary Karabell.
Karabell, Zachary.
1998
LA227.4 .K37 1998 (Mapit)
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Title What's college for? : the struggle to define American higher education / Zachary Karabell.
Author Karabell, Zachary.
ISBN 0465087701
9780465087709
0465091520
9780465091522
Imprint New York : Basic Books, ©1998.
Language English
Description xxiii, 288 pages ; 22 cm
Call Number LA227.4 .K37 1998
Dewey Decimal Classification 378.73
Summary "Zachary Karabell spent over a year traveling the country interviewing students, graduate students, faculty, and adjunct teachers, and the result is a portrait of American higher education that is neither conservative nor liberal and that needs to be taken seriously." "The overwhelming majority of today's students are working-class people seeking education to get a job; they are not seeking a liberal education, nor planning to go on to graduate school. Most faculty members, products of elite graduate schools that have insulated them from the needs of real-world people, are often profoundly ill-equipped to handle this changing student body. By exploring the myriad perspectives of these conflicting expectations Karabell concludes that a radical democratization of higher education is not only inevitable, it is desirable, and it will require dramatic changes in the structure and presumptions about education beyond the high school level."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-269) and index.
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