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The faculty lounges
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Naomi Schaefer Riley |
College tuition has risen four times faster than the rate of inflation in the past two decades. While faculties like to blame the rising costs on fancy athletic buildings and bloated administrations,… |
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White Elephants on Campus
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Margaret M. Grubiak |
In White Elephants on Campus: The Decline of the University Chapel in America, 1920-1960, Margaret M. Grubiak persuasively argues, through a careful selection of case studies, that the evolution of t… |
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Degrees of inequality
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Suzanne Mettler |
"America's higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one in which a college degree benefits only… |
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Aspiring adults adrift
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Richard Arum |
"Built on interviews and detailed surveys of almost a thousand recent college graduates from a diverse range of colleges and universities, Aspiring Adults Adrift reveals a generation facing a difficu… |
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The great mistake
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Christopher Newfield |
Higher education in America, still thought to be the world leader, is in crisis. University students are falling behind their international peers in attainment, while suffering from unprecedented stu… |
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Designing state higher education systems for a new century
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Richard C. Richardson |
"Based on a study by the California Higher Education Policy Center, now The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, this new work from the ACE/Oryx Series on Higher Education proposes… |
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The university in ruins
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Bill Readings |
"It is no longer clear what role the University plays in society. The structure of the contemporary University is changing rapidly, and we have yet to understand what precisely these changes will mea… |
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