Higher education in America [electronic resource] / Derek Bok.
2013
LA227.4 .B665 2013eb
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Title
Higher education in America [electronic resource] / Derek Bok.
Author
Bok, Derek Curtis.
ISBN
9781400848300 (electronic bk.)
140084830X (electronic bk.)
9780691159140 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0691159149 (hardcover : alk. paper)
140084830X (electronic bk.)
9780691159140 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0691159149 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Imprint
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, c2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 479 p.)
Call Number
LA227.4 .B665 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
378.73
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [413]-452) and index.
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Table of Contents
The American system of higher education
Purposes, goals, and limits to growth
The governance of nonprofit universities
Going to college and earning a degree
Paying for college : the challenge for policy-makers and academic leaders
Entering the right college
The expanding audience for higher education
What to learn
How to teach
Prospects for reform
Graduate education
Medical schools
Law schools
Business schools
"Publish or perish"
The changing nature of scientific research
The environment for research
Matters of genuine concern
The last word.
Purposes, goals, and limits to growth
The governance of nonprofit universities
Going to college and earning a degree
Paying for college : the challenge for policy-makers and academic leaders
Entering the right college
The expanding audience for higher education
What to learn
How to teach
Prospects for reform
Graduate education
Medical schools
Law schools
Business schools
"Publish or perish"
The changing nature of scientific research
The environment for research
Matters of genuine concern
The last word.