Declining by degrees
Subtitle: higher education at risk
By: edited by Richard Hersh and John Merrow ; foreword by Tom Wolfe.
Contributors: Hersh, Richard H., 1942-; Merrow, John.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Education, Higher -- United States
Notes: Companion PBS documentary, with same title, available on DVD.

Includes index.

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