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College : What It Was, Is, and Should Be, Paperback by Delbanco, Andrew, Like...

Description: College : What It Was, Is, and Should Be, Paperback by Delbanco, Andrew, ISBN 0691246378, ISBN-13 9780691246376, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The strengths and failures of the American college, and why liberal education still matters 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 describing 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.

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Book Title: College : What It Was, Is, and Should Be

Number of Pages: 280 Pages

Publication Name: College : What It Was, Is, and Should Be-Second Edition

Language: English

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Item Height: 0.9 in

Publication Year: 2023

Subject: Educational Policy & Reform / General, Higher, History, Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects

Item Weight: 9 Oz

Type: Textbook

Item Length: 8 in

Subject Area: Education

Author: Andrew Delbanco

Series: The William G. Bowen Ser.

Item Width: 5.3 in

Format: Trade Paperback

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