TY - BOOK AU - Hersh,Richard H. AU - Merrow,John TI - Declining by degrees: higher education at risk SN - 1403969213 AV - LA 227.4 .D45 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Education, Higher KW - United States KW - Hoger onderwijs KW - gtt KW - Titulatuur KW - Kwaliteitscontrole KW - Enseignement sup�erieur KW - �Etats-Unis N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0624/2005043024-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0624/2005043024-d.html UR - http://edrev.asu.edu/essays/v8n2index.html ER -