What's college for?
Subtitle: the struggle to define American higher education
By: Zachary Karabell.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States; Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- United States; Education, Humanistic -- United States; College students -- United States -- Attitudes; Teacher-student relationships -- United States
Description: "Zachary Karabell spent over a year traveling the country interviewing students, graduate students, faculty, and adjunct teachers, and the result is a portrait of American higher education that is neither conservative nor liberal and that needs to be taken seriously." "The overwhelming majority of today's students are working-class people seeking education to get a job; they are not seeking a liberal education, nor planning to go on to graduate school. Most faculty members, products of elite graduate schools that have insulated them from the needs of real-world people, are often profoundly ill-equipped to handle this changing student body. By exploring the myriad perspectives of these conflicting expectations Karabell concludes that a radical democratization of higher education is not only inevitable, it is desirable, and it will require dramatic changes in the structure and presumptions about education beyond the high school level."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-269) and index.