College : : What It Was, Is, and Should Be - Second Edition / / Andrew Delbanco.

The strengths and failures of the American college, and why liberal education still mattersAs the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]
©2012
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
  • INTRODUCTION
  • ONE. WHAT IS COLLEGE FOR?
  • TWO. ORIGINS
  • THREE. FROM COLLEGE TO UNIVERSITY
  • THREE. FROM COLLEGE TO UNIVERSITY
  • FIVE. BRAVE NEW WORLD
  • SIX. WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
  • SEVEN. AFTER THE PANDEMIC
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTES
  • INDEX