Title: What's College for
Subtitle: the struggle to define American higher education
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.
Subjects: Higher Education, Social aspects of Higher education, Aims and objectives, Humanistic Education, College students, Attitudes, Teacher-student relationships, Teacher-student relationship, Hoger onderwijs, Social aspects, Höheres Bildungswesen, Education, higher, aims and objectives, Educational change, Education, higher, social aspects, Education, humanistic
Places: United States