College [electronic resource] : what it was, is, and should be / Andrew Delbanco.
Delbanco, Andrew, 1952-
2012
LA227.4 .D455 2012eb
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Title College [electronic resource] : what it was, is, and should be / Andrew Delbanco.
Author Delbanco, Andrew, 1952-
ISBN 9781400841578 (electronic book)
9780691130736
Imprint Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 229 p.)
Call Number LA227.4 .D455 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 378.73
Summary 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. --from publisher description
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What is college for?
Origins
From college to university
Who went, who goes, who pays?
Brave new world
What is to be done.

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