Declining By Degrees
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Author | : Richard H. Hersh |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2015-04-07 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1466893389 |
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What is actually happening on college campuses in the years between admission and graduation? Not enough to keep America competitive, and not enough to provide our citizens with fulfilling lives. When A Nation at Risk called attention to the problems of our public schools in 1983, that landmark report provided a convenient "cover" for higher education, inadvertently implying that all was well on America's campuses. Declining by Degrees blows higher education's cover. It asks tough--and long overdue--questions about our colleges and universities. In candid, coherent, and ultimately provocative ways, Declining by Degrees reveals: - how students are being short-changed by lowered academic expectations and standards; -why many universities focus on research instead of teaching and spend more on recruiting and athletics than on salaries for professors; -why students are disillusioned; -how administrations are obsessed with rankings in news magazines rather than the quality of learning; -why the media ignore the often catastrophic results; and -how many professors and students have an unspoken "non-aggression pact" when it comes to academic effort. Declining by Degrees argues persuasively that the multi-billion dollar enterprise of higher education has gone astray. At the same time, these essays offer specific prescriptions for change, warning that our nation is in fact at greater risk if we do nothing.
Author | : Richard H. Hersh |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Griffin |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2006-05-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781403973160 |
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Two decades ago A Nation at Risk sounded a national alarm on K-12 education. Now, an equally urgent alarm is being sounded for higher education in America. In Declining 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 Degrees creates a national discussion about the future of higher education and what we can do about it.
Author | : Randle W. Nelsen |
Publisher | : Between the Lines |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2018-07-12 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 177113335X |
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Author | : Jeffrey J. Selingo |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0544027078 |
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Jeff Selingo, journalist and editor-in-chief of the Chronicle for Higher Education, argues that colleges can no longer sell a four-year degree as the ticket to success in life. College (Un)Bound exposes the dire pitfalls in the current state of higher education for anyone concerned with intellectual and financial future of America.
Author | : Kenneth H. Ashworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Download American Higher Education in Decline Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In the last twenty years America's higher-education system has jeopardized our society's very future by allowing a serious decline in educational quality. Responding to modern egalitarianism and the need to attract students, colleges and universities have initiated wildly innovative programs, noncampuses, and nontraditional degrees. Worse, they have lowered all standards. Nonacademic entrepreneurs, attracted by generous federal funds, now demand equal status with established schools. And they are dangerously near receiving this full recognition from irresolute regional accrediting associations.
Author | : Richard K. Vedder |
Publisher | : American Enterprise Institute |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780844741970 |
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Economist Richard Vedder examines the causes of the college tuition crisis and explores ways to reverse this alarming trend.
Author | : Randle W. Nelsen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Education, Higher |
ISBN | : 9781771133340 |
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"In Degrees of Failure, sociologist Randle Nelsen brings together such diverse topics as campus parking, college sports, helicopter parents, edu-business as edu-tainment, and technology in teaching to show how continuing inequities, grounded in large part upon social class differences, are maintained and reproduced in our universities. Paying special attention to the role played by professors in solidifying status-quo arrangements, Nelsen makes the strange familiar for those outside the university bureaucracy and the familiar strange for those whose participation in university settings is a routine part of everyday life."--
Author | : Nathan D. Grawe |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1421424134 |
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"The economics of American higher education are driven by one key factor--the availability of students willing to pay tuition--and many related factors that determine what schools they attend. By digging into the data, economist Nathan Grawe has created probability models for predicting college attendance. What he sees are alarming events on the horizon that every college and university needs to understand. Overall, he spots demographic patterns that are tilting the US population toward the Hispanic southwest. Moreover, since 2007, fertility rates have fallen by 12 percent. Higher education analysts recognize the destabilizing potential of these trends. However, existing work fails to adjust headcounts for college attendance probabilities and makes no systematic attempt to distinguish demand by institution type. This book analyzes demand forecasts by institution type and rank, disaggregating by demographic groups. Its findings often contradict the dominant narrative: while many schools face painful contractions, demand for elite schools is expected to grow by 15+ percent. Geographic and racial profiles will shift only slightly--and attendance by Asians, not Hispanics, will grow most. Grawe also use the model to consider possible changes in institutional recruitment strategies and government policies. These "what if" analyses show that even aggressive innovation is unlikely to overcome trends toward larger gaps across racial, family income, and parent education groups. Aimed at administrators and trustees with responsibility for decisions ranging from admissions to student support to tenure practices to facilities construction, this book offers data to inform decision-making--decisions that will determine institutional success in meeting demographic challenges"--
Author | : Johann N. Neem |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2019-08-13 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1421429896 |
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Exploring how we can ensure that America's colleges remain places for intellectual inquiry and reflection, Neem does not just provide answers to the big questions surrounding higher education—he offers readers a guide for how to think about them.
Author | : Clifford Adelman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Download The Toolbox Revisited Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Toolbox Revisited is a data essay that follows a nationally representative cohort of students from high school into postsecondary education, and asks what aspects of their formal schooling contribute to completing a bachelor's degree by their mid-20s. The universe of students is confined to those who attended a four-year college at any time, thus including students who started out in other types of institutions, particularly community colleges.