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Item Details
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COLLEGE
WHAT IT WAS, IS, AND SHOULD BE |
| By: |
Andrew Delbanco |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£12.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0691158290 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780691158297 |
| Publisher: |
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
21 April, 2013 |
| Edition: |
Revised edition |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
The traditional American four-year college experience is in danger of becoming a thing of the past. Cultural critic Andrew Delbanco offers a trenchant defense of such an education, and warns that it is becoming a privilege reserved for the relatively rich. |
| Synopsis: |
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 values with the help of teachers and peers--is in danger of becoming a thing of the past. In College, prominent cultural critic Andrew Delbanco offers a trenchant defense of such an education, and warns that it is becoming a privilege reserved for the relatively rich. In arguing for what a true college education should be, he demonstrates why making it available to as many young people as possible remains central to America's democratic promise. In a brisk and vivid historical narrative, Delbanco explains how the idea of college arose in the colonial period from the Puritan idea of the gathered church, how it struggled to survive in the nineteenth century in the shadow of the new research universities, and how, in the twentieth century, it slowly opened its doors to women, minorities, and students from low-income families.He describes the unique strengths of America's colleges in our era of globalization and, while recognizing the growing centrality of science, technology, and vocational subjects in the curriculum, he mounts a vigorous defense of a broadly humanistic education for all. Acknowledging the serious financial, intellectual, and ethical challenges that all colleges face today, Delbanco considers what is at stake in the urgent effort to protect these venerable institutions for future generations. In a new preface, Delbanco addresses recent events that threaten the future of the institution. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Princeton University Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of O.L. Davis Jr. AATC Outstanding Book in Education Award 2013.
Runner-up for PROSE Awards: Education 2012. |
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Returnable |
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