Declining by Degrees Higher Education at Risk,9781403973160

Declining by Degrees Higher Education at Risk

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ISBN13: 9781403973160
ISBN10: 1403973164
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-05-01
Publisher(s): Griffin
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Summary

Two decades agoA Nation at Risksounded a national alarm on K-12 education. Now, an equally urgent alarm is being sounded for higher education in America. InDeclining by Degrees,leading authors and educators such as Tom Wolfe, Jim Fallows, and Jay Mathews provide us with a valuable understanding of the serious issues facing colleges today, such as budget cuts, grade inflation, questionable recruitment strategies, and a major focus on Big Time Sports. Tied to the PBS documentary of the same name,Declining by Degreescreates a national discussion about the future of higher education and what we can do about it.

Author Biography

Richard H. Hersh is a Senior Fellow at the Council for Aid to Education (RAND). He is the former president of Trinity College and Hobart and William Smith Colleges. John Merrow is the Peabody Award winning president of Learning Matters, Inc. He is Host and Executive Producer of The Merrow Report on PBS and NPR. He is an education correspondent for the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour on PBS.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Foreword ix
Introduction 1(144)
Richard H. Hersh and John Merrow
1. The Media: Degrees of Coverage
11(12)
Gene I. Maeroff
2. Ready or Not? Where the Public Stands on Higher Education Reform
23(16)
Deborah Wadsworth
3. College Admissions: A Substitute for Quality?
39(8)
James Fallows
4. Caveat Lector: Unexamined Assumptions about Quality in Higher Education
47(14)
Jay Mathews
5. Liberal Education: Slip-Sliding Away?
61(16)
Carol G. Schneider
6. Six Challenges to the American University
77(20)
Vartan Gregorian
7. Beyond Markets and Individuals: A Focus on Educational Goals
97(16)
Howard Gardner
8. This Little Student Went to Market
113(18)
David L. Kirp
9. How Undergraduate Education Became College Lite—and a Personal Apology
131(14)
Murray Sperber
10. America's Modern Peculiar Institution 145(10)
Frank Deford
11. Worlds Apart: Disconnects Between Students and Their Colleges 155(14)
Arthur Levine
12. Leaving the Newcomers Behind 169(16)
Roberto Suro and Richard Fry
13. Talking the Talk: Rhetoric and Reality for Students of Color 185(10)
Heather D. Wathington
14. It is Only a Port of Call: Reflections on the State of Higher Education 195(14)
Julie Johnson Kidd
15. The Curriculum and College Life: Confronting Unfulfilled Promises 209(20)
Leon Botstein
Afterword: What Difference Does a College Make? 229(4)
Richard H. Hersh
Afterword 233(4)
John Merrow
About the Contributors 237(4)
Index 241

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