Our Underachieving Colleges : : A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More - New Edition /

Our Underachieving Colleges : : A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More - New Edition / / Derek Bok.

Drawing on a large body of empirical evidence, former Harvard President Derek Bok examines how much progress college students actually make toward widely accepted goals of undergraduate education. His conclusions are sobering. Although most students make gains in many important respects, they improv...

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Bok, Derek,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2008
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:The William G. Bowen Series ; 50
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. The Evolution of American Colleges
  • 2. Faculty Attitudes toward Undergraduate Education
  • 3. Purposes
  • 4. Learning to Communicate
  • 5. Learning to Think
  • 6. Building Character
  • 7. Preparation for Citizenship
  • 8. Living with Diversity
  • 9. Preparing for a Global Society
  • 10. Acquiring Broader Interests
  • 11. Preparing for a Career
  • 12. Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education
  • Afterword to the Paperback Edition
  • Notes
  • Index

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