The William G. Bowen Series College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0691130736
ISBN 13
9780691130736
Category
Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoLT)
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Publication Year
2012
Publisher
Pages
248
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Description
As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience--an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peers--is in danger of becoming a thing of the past. In College, prominent cultural critic Andrew Delbanco offers a trenchant defense of such an education, and warns that it is becoming a privilege reserved for the relatively rich. In arguing for what a true college education should be, he demonstrates why making it available to as many young people as possible remains central to America's democratic promise. In a brisk and vivid historical narrative, Delbanco explains how the idea of college arose in the colonial period from the Puritan idea of the gathered church, how it struggled to survive in the nineteenth century in the shado - from Amzon
Number of Copies
2
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