Two decades ago A Nation at Risk sounded a national alarm on K-12 education. Now, an equally urgent alarm is being sounded for higher education in America. In Declining by Degrees, leading authors and educators such as Tom Wolfe, Jim Fallows, and Jay Mathews provide us with a valuable understanding of the serious issues facing colleges today, such as budget cuts, grade inflation, questionable recruitment strategies, and a major focus on Big Time Sports. Tied to the PBS documentary of the same name, Declining by Degrees creates a national discussion about the future of higher education and what we can do about it.…mehr
Two decades ago A Nation at Risk sounded a national alarm on K-12 education. Now, an equally urgent alarm is being sounded for higher education in America. In Declining by Degrees, leading authors and educators such as Tom Wolfe, Jim Fallows, and Jay Mathews provide us with a valuable understanding of the serious issues facing colleges today, such as budget cuts, grade inflation, questionable recruitment strategies, and a major focus on Big Time Sports. Tied to the PBS documentary of the same name, Declining by Degrees creates a national discussion about the future of higher education and what we can do about it.
Richard Hersh has served as President of Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Trinity College (Hartford), and Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at The University of New Hampshire and Drake University. He also served as Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Oregon and was Director of the Center for Moral Education at Harvard University. In his early career he was a high school teacher, professor and dean of teacher education.
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Foreword Tom Wolfe * Introduction Richard H. Hersh & John Merrow * Extra, Extra, Don't Read All about It Gene I. Maeroff * Degrees of Indifference? Where the Public Stands on Higher Education 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 (A Personal Apology) Murray Sperber * College Sports: America's New Peculiar Institution Frank Deford * Worlds Apart: Disconnects between Students and Their Colleges Arthur Levine * Leaving the Newcomers Behind Roberto Suro & Richard Fry * Talking the Talk: Rhetoric & Reality for Students of Color Heather D. Washington * It's 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 Richard H. Hersh * Afterword John Merrow
Foreword Tom Wolfe * Introduction Richard H. Hersh & John Merrow * Extra, Extra, Don't Read All about It Gene I. Maeroff * Degrees of Indifference? Where the Public Stands on Higher Education 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 (A Personal Apology) Murray Sperber * College Sports: America's New Peculiar Institution Frank Deford * Worlds Apart: Disconnects between Students and Their Colleges Arthur Levine * Leaving the Newcomers Behind Roberto Suro & Richard Fry * Talking the Talk: Rhetoric & Reality for Students of Color Heather D. Washington * It's 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 Richard H. Hersh * Afterword John Merrow
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