How College Works / / Daniel F. Chambliss.
Constrained by shrinking budgets, can colleges do more to improve the quality of education? And can students get more out of college without paying higher tuition? Daniel Chambliss and Christopher Takacs conclude that limited resources need not diminish the undergraduate experience. How College Work...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 1 line illustration |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 The Search for a Solution -- 2 Entering -- 3 Choosing -- 4 The Arithmetic of Engagement -- 5 Belonging -- 6 Learning -- 7 Finishing -- 8 Lessons Learned -- Appendix Methods -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Summary: | Constrained by shrinking budgets, can colleges do more to improve the quality of education? And can students get more out of college without paying higher tuition? Daniel Chambliss and Christopher Takacs conclude that limited resources need not diminish the undergraduate experience. How College Works reveals the decisive role that personal relationships play in determining a student's success, and puts forward a set of small, inexpensive interventions that yield substantial improvements in educational outcomes. At a liberal arts college in New York, the authors followed nearly one hundred students over eight years. The curricular and technological innovations beloved by administrators mattered much less than did professors and peers, especially early on. At every turning point in undergraduate lives, it was the people, not the programs, that proved critical. Great teachers were more important than the topics studied, and just two or three good friendships made a significant difference academically as well as socially. For most students, college works best when it provides the daily motivation to learn, not just access to information. Improving higher education means focusing on the quality of relationships with mentors and classmates, for when students form the right bonds, they make the most of their education. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780674726093 9783110369526 9783110370416 9783110665901 |
DOI: | 10.4159/harvard.9780674726093 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Daniel F. Chambliss. |