Declining by degrees : higher education at risk / edited by Richard H. Hersh and John Merrow ; foreword by Tom Wolfe.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2005.Description: xi, 244 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 1403969213
  • 9781403969217
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LA 227.4 .D45 2005
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Contents:
The media : degrees of coverage / Gene I. Maeroff -- Ready or not? Where the public stands on higher education reform / Deborah Wadsworth -- College admissions : a substitute for quality? / James Fallows -- Caveat Lector : unexamined assumptions about quality in higher education / Jay Mathews -- Liberal education : slip-sliding away? / Carol G. Schneider -- Six challenges to the American university / Vartan Gregorian -- Beyond markets and individuals : a focus on educational goals / Howard Gardner -- This little student went to market / David L. Kirp -- How undergraduate education became college lite--and a personal apology / Murray Sperber -- America's modern peculiar institution / Frank Deford -- Worlds apart : disconnects between students and their colleges / Arthur Levine -- Leaving the newcomers behind / Roberto Suro and Richard Fry -- Talking the talk : rhetoric and reality for students of color / Heather D. Wathington -- It is only a port of call : reflections on the state of higher education / Julie Johnson Kidd -- The curriculum and college life : confronting unfulfilled promises / Leon Botstein -- Afterword : What difference does a college make? / Richard H. Hersh.
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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The media : degrees of coverage / Gene I. Maeroff -- Ready or not? Where the public stands on higher education reform / Deborah Wadsworth -- College admissions : a substitute for quality? / James Fallows -- Caveat Lector : unexamined assumptions about quality in higher education / Jay Mathews -- Liberal education : slip-sliding away? / Carol G. Schneider -- Six challenges to the American university / Vartan Gregorian -- Beyond markets and individuals : a focus on educational goals / Howard Gardner -- This little student went to market / David L. Kirp -- How undergraduate education became college lite--and a personal apology / Murray Sperber -- America's modern peculiar institution / Frank Deford -- Worlds apart : disconnects between students and their colleges / Arthur Levine -- Leaving the newcomers behind / Roberto Suro and Richard Fry -- Talking the talk : rhetoric and reality for students of color / Heather D. Wathington -- It is only a port of call : reflections on the state of higher education / Julie Johnson Kidd -- The curriculum and college life : confronting unfulfilled promises / Leon Botstein -- Afterword : What difference does a college make? / Richard H. Hersh.

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