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The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges (The William G. Bowen Series, 105) Hardcover - 2017
by Bok, Derek
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- Title The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges (The William G. Bowen Series, 105)
- Author Bok, Derek
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Hardback
- Condition New
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press
- Date 2017-09-05
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0691177473_used
- ISBN 9780691177472 / 0691177473
- Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.1 in (23.62 x 16.26 x 2.79 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Academic achievement - United States, Educational change - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017012202
- Dewey Decimal Code 378.73
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From the rear cover
"Derek Bok has written a clear-eyed analysis of the challenges facing those interested in reforming our nation's colleges. Informed by data, scholarship, and the wisdom of experience, Bok's perspective is that of a thoughtful but loving critic, and he pulls no punches. His critiques of faculty, students, college presidents, trustees, foundations, and government policymakers are spot-on. All who wish to improve higher education should read this book."--Lawrence S. Bacow, president emeritus of Tufts University
"In The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges, Derek Bok is rightly tough on colleges and universities for their failure to improve educational outcomes and graduation rates, leading to a corresponding negative effect on economic growth and income inequality. Exploring the ways that student learning should be strengthened, Bok demonstrates how the stars have to be aligned between the government, foundations, thoughtful administrators, and faculty to create a productive environment for reform."--Mary Patterson McPherson, president emeritus of Bryn Mawr College
"The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges provides an insightful, balanced analysis of the problems facing higher education and does an excellent job offering the background needed to understand the issues. Bok reviews the arguments for increasing postsecondary educational attainment with a strong focus on the quality of education and what students actually learn. He is realistic about the barriers to strengthening the system but is refreshingly optimistic about the prospects for meaningful progress."--Sandy Baum, author of Student Debt
"This ambitious book argues that we are at a moment of change and reform in higher education. The United States is falling behind other countries in the share of the population with postsecondary degrees, and at the same time advances in teaching and the advent of new technology are opening opportunities. Assessing this progress, The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges yields important discussion. I learned a great deal."--Thomas Bailey, coauthor of Redesigning America's Community Colleges
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- Library Journal, 10/15/2017, Page 96