College

What It Was, Is, and Should Be - Updated Edition

Andrew Delbanco (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2014 | Updated Edition
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-16551-6 (ISBN)

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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. In a new afterword, Delbanco responds to recent developments--both ominous and promising--in the changing landscape of higher education.

Andrew Delbanco is the Mendelson Family Chair of American Studies and the Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. His books include Melville: His World and Work (Vintage), which won the Lionel Trilling Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in biography. He received the 2011 National Humanities Medal for his writing, which spans from the literature of Melville and Emerson to contemporary issues in higher education.

Preface to the Paperback Edition xi Preface xvii Introduction 1 One What Is College For? 9 Two Origins 36 Three From College to University 67 Four Who Went? Who Goes? Who Pays? 102 Five Brave New World 125 Six What Is to Be Done? 150 Afterword to the New Paperback Edition 179 Acknowledgments 187 Notes 191 Index 223

Reihe/Serie	The William G. Bowen Series
Nachwort	Andrew Delbanco
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	0-691-16551-3 / 0691165513
ISBN-13	978-0-691-16551-6 / 9780691165516
Zustand	Neuware