Higher Education and the American Dream : : success and Its discontents / / Marvin Lazerson.
"Marvin Lazerson's new book is exactly what is needed: a readable, cogent explanation of how the US can have the best system of higher education in the world, but also a system that seems to be coming apart at the seams.”—Susan Fuhrman, President Teachers College, Columbia University, Pres...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : : Central European University Press,, 2010. Baltimore, Md. : : Project MUSE,, 2014 ©2010. |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Building the dream (and worrying about it)
- Higher education as vocational education
- Who governs higher education?
- Managerial imperatives
- Academic disciplines, research imperatives, and undergraduate learning
- A revolution in teaching and learning
- Why is higher education so hard to reform?