TY  - BOOK
AB  - "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.
AU  - Karabell, Zachary.
CN  - LA227.4
CN  - LA227.4
CY  - New York :
DA  - ©1998.
ID  - 1408883
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Education, Humanistic
KW  - College students
KW  - Teacher-student relationships
KW  - Enseignement supérieur
KW  - Enseignement supérieur
KW  - Éducation humaniste
KW  - Étudiants
KW  - College students
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Education, Humanistic.
KW  - Teacher-student relationships.
KW  - Höheres Bildungswesen
KW  - Hoger onderwijs.
KW  - Higher education
KW  - Higher education
KW  - Teacher-student relationship
N2  - "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.
PB  - Basic Books,
PP  - New York :
PY  - ©1998.
SN  - 0465087701
SN  - 9780465087709
SN  - 0465091520
SN  - 9780465091522
T1  - What's college for? :the struggle to define American higher education /
TI  - What's college for? :the struggle to define American higher education /
ER  -