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- Higher Education and the American Dream: Success and Its Discontents
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: Central European University Press
summary
Marvin Lazerson (professor at the Central European University and the University of Pennsylvania) considers the successes of higher education in the USA and how this has also bred discontent. He traces the development of higher education from the last half of the twentieth century, and considers why the expansion occurred, how it became an industry, and the increasing role of education in job attainment, as well as problems like rising costs, debates about the economic worth of higher education, and the decline in its civic, moral, and intellectual purposes. He also discusses changes in governance to a more business-like model, the managerial imperatives colleges face, changes to curriculum and research, and reform.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-7
- Table of Contents
- pp. vii-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Part I. The Gospel of Getting Ahead
- pp. 11-23
- CHAPTER 4. Managerial imperatives
- pp. 95-111
- Part IV. Making Things Better
- pp. 185-197
- References
- pp. 201-211
- Name Index
- pp. 213-214
- Subject Index
- pp. 215-221
Additional Information
ISBN
9786155211911
Related ISBN(s)
9789633861066, 9789639776791
MARC Record
OCLC
671655893
Pages
231
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No