College : : What It Was, Is, and Should Be - Updated Edition /

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

As 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 experience-an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and v...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2014-2015
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Delbanco, Andrew,
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Delbanco, Andrew.
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©2015
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Updated edition with a New afterword by the author
Language:English
Series:The William G. Bowen Series ; 82
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface to the Paperback Edition
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • ONE. What Is College For?
  • TWO. Origins
  • THREE. From College to University
  • FOUR. Who Went? Who Goes? Who Pays?
  • FIVE. Brave New World
  • SIX. What Is to Be Done?
  • Afterword to the New Paperback Edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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