The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges /

The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges / / Derek Bok.

Why efforts to improve American higher educational attainment haven't worked, and where to go from hereDuring the first decade of this century, many commentators predicted that American higher education was about to undergo major changes that would be brought about under the stimulus of online...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Bok, Derek,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
©2018
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:The William G. Bowen Series ; 105
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 12 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE: THE CHALLENGE
  • Chapter One. Graduation Rates and Educational Attainment
  • Chapter Two. The Quality of Education
  • PART TWO: SOURCES OF INFLUENCE
  • Chapter Three. Can Colleges Meet the Challenges by Themselves?
  • Chapter Four. The Influence of Students
  • Chapter Five. Employers
  • Chapter Six. Competition, Old and New
  • Chapter Seven. The Major Foundations
  • Chapter Eight. The Role of Government in Raising Levels of Educational Attainment
  • Chapter Nine. Government Efforts to Improve the Quality of Education
  • Chapter Ten. Accreditation
  • PART THREE: THE WAY FORWARD
  • Chapter Eleven. Increasing Educational Attainment
  • Chapter Twelve. Improving the Quality of Education
  • Chapter Thirteen. Encouraging Reform
  • Notes
  • Index

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