@article{470623,
      recid = {470623},
      author = {Bok, Derek Curtis.},
      title = {Higher education in America [electronic resource] /},
      publisher = {Princeton University Press,},
      address = {Princeton, New Jersey :},
      pages = {1 online resource (x, 479 p.)},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {At a time when colleges and universities have never been  more important to the lives and opportunities of students  or to the progress and prosperity of the nation, Bok  provides a thorough examination of the entire system,  public and private, from community colleges and small  liberal arts colleges to great universities with their  research programs and their medical, law, and business  schools. Drawing on the most reliable studies and data, he  determines which criticisms of higher education are  unfounded or exaggerated, which are issues of genuine  concern, and what can be done to improve matters. Some of  the subjects considered are long-standing, such as debates  over the undergraduate curriculum and concerns over rising  college costs. Others are more recent, such as the rise of  for-profit institutions and massive open online courses  (MOOCs). Additional topics include the quality of  undergraduate education, the stagnating levels of college  graduation, the problems of university governance, the  strengths and weaknesses of graduate and professional  education, the environment for research, and the benefits  and drawbacks of the pervasive competition among American  colleges and universities. Offering a rare survey and  evaluation of American higher education as a whole, this  book provides a solid basis for a fresh public discussion  about what the system is doing right, what it needs to do  better, and how the next quarter century could be made a  period of progress rather than decline.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/470623},
}