Declining by degrees :  higher education at risk / 
edited by Richard H. Hersh and John Merrow ; foreword by Tom Wolfe. 
 - New York :  Palgrave Macmillan,  c2005. 
 - xi, 244 p. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> The media : degrees of coverage /  Ready or not? Where the public stands on higher education reform /  College admissions : a substitute for quality? /  Caveat Lector : unexamined assumptions about quality in higher education /  Liberal education : slip-sliding away? /  Six challenges to the American university /  Beyond markets and individuals : a focus on educational goals /  This little student went to market /  How undergraduate education became college lite--and a personal apology /  America's modern peculiar institution /  Worlds apart : disconnects between students and their colleges /  Leaving the newcomers behind /  Talking the talk : rhetoric and reality for students of color /  It is only a port of call : reflections on the state of higher education /  The curriculum and college life : confronting unfulfilled promises /  Afterword : What difference does a college make? /  Gene I. Maeroff --  Deborah Wadsworth --  James Fallows --  Jay Mathews --  Carol G. Schneider --  Vartan Gregorian --  Howard Gardner --  David L. Kirp --  Murray Sperber --  Frank Deford --  Arthur Levine --  Roberto Suro and Richard Fry --  Heather D. Wathington --  Julie Johnson Kidd --  Leon Botstein --  Richard H. Hersh. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1403969213 9781403969217 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005043024 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Education, Higher--United States.<br/>Hoger onderwijs.<br/>Titulatuur.<br/>Kwaliteitscontrole.<br/>Enseignement sup�erieur--�Etats-Unis.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LA 227.4  / .D45 2005