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College costs United States Critical thinking Study and teaching (Higher) United States Democracy United States Education, Higher Aims and objectives United States Education, Higher Social aspects United States Education, Higher United States Elite (Social sciences) Education United States Reasoning Study and teaching (Higher) United States Student aid United States Universities and colleges United StatesCrow, Michael M.
Summary: "Building on the success of Designing the New American University (JHUP, 2015), this book examines the historical development of American higher education (in four preceding waves: colonial colleges, universities state universities, land-grant universities, research) and then describes the emerging next wave of institutions that will transform the field. What emerges in this fifth wave of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.73 CROMac Donald, Heather
Summary: "America is in crisis, from the campus to the workplace. Toxic ideas--bred in college classrooms and nurtured by politicized scholarship--have undermined humanistic values, fueled intolerance, and widened divisions in the larger culture. Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton? Oppressive. American history? Tyrannous. Teachers upholding rigorous standards or employers hiring by merit? Racist and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.117 MACDeresiewicz, William
Summary: A sharp look at the high-pressure conveyor belt that begins with parents and counselors who demand perfect grades and culminates in the skewed applications Deresiewicz saw firsthand as a member of Yale's admissions committee. As schools shift focus from the humanities to 'practical' subjects like economics and computer science, students are losing the ability to think in innovative ways.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 378 DERDeresiewicz, William
Summary: "A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and living that elite schools should be--but aren't--providing"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378 DERKronman, Anthony T
Summary: "The former dean of Yale Law School surveys the full sweep of recent campus controversies to show how these disputes threaten the best of America's intellectual traditions--including democracy itself. In his tenure at Yale, Anthony Kronman has watched students march across campus to protest the names of buildings and seen colleagues resign over emails about Halloween costumes. He is no stranger...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.73 KROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Politic KronmanBerlinerblau, Jacques.
Summary: "A tenured prof. breaks ranks to reveal what's wrong with American higher education and how it affects you. Professors can be underpaid. Marginalized. Over-reviewed. But one fact remains: The success of your education depends on them. Part industry expose and part call for a return to engaged teaching, Campus Confidential shows how the noble project of higher education fell so far and how we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378 BERSummary: Is college worth the cost? Groundbreaking filmmaker Andrew Rossi asks the critical question about the value of higher education, revealing how colleges have come to embrace a business model that often promotes expansion over quality learning. With student-loan debt now over the one trillion dollar mark, the once-great American institution is at a breaking point. The film explores the current...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014