Higher Education in America

Name: Higher Education in America
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ISBN: 9780691159140

ISBN-10: 0691159149

ISBN-13: 9780691159140

Edition: 2013

Authors: Derek Bok

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Higher Education in America is a landmark work--a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the current condition of our colleges and universities from former Harvard president Derek Bok, one of the nation's most respected education experts. Sweepingly ambitious in scope, this is a deeply informed and balanced assessment of the many strengths as well as the weaknesses of American higher education today. At a time when colleges and universities have never been more important to the lives and opportunities of students or to the progress and prosperity of the nation, Bok provides a thorough examination of the entire system, public and private, from community colleges and small liberal arts…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 9/6/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 496
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.53" long x 1.44" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Context


Foreword (I)



The American System of Higher Education



Purposes, Goals, and Limits to Growth



The Governance of Nonprofit Universities


Afterword (I)



Undergraduate Education


Foreword (II)



Going to College and Earning a Degree



Paying for College: The Challenge for Policy-Makers and Academic Leaders



Entering the Right College



The Expanding Audience for Higher Education



What to Learn



How to Teach



Prospects for Reform


Afterword (II)



Graduate Education



Professional Education


Foreword (III)



Medical Schools



Law Schools



Business Schools


Afterword (III)



Research


Foreword (IV)



"Publish or Perish"



The Changing Nature of Scientific Research



The Environment for Research


Afterword (IV)



A Final Reckoning


Foreword (V)



Matters of Genuine Concern


The Last Word


Notes


Index