Higher education in America
"At a time when colleges and universities have never been more important to the lives and opportunities of students or to the progress and prosperity of the nation, Bok provides a thorough examination of the entire system, public and private, from community colleges and small liberal arts colle...
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Princeton
Princeton University Press
2013
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Table of Contents:
- I. The context. The American system of higher education
- Purposes, goals, and limits to growth
- The governance of nonprofit universities. II. Undergraduate education. Going to college and earning a degree
- Paying for college : the challenge for policy-makers and academic leaders
- Entering the right college
- The expanding audience for higher education
- What to learn
- How to teach
- Prospects for reform
- Graduate education. III. Professional education. Medical schools
- Law schools
- Business schools. IV. Research. "Publish or perish"
- The changing nature of scientific research
- The environment for research. V. A final reckoning. Matters of genuine concern
- The last word