Offers a historical analysis of the rise and fall of higher education in the past 30 years, through an account of the senior author's experiences as a Je teaching religious studies during the Cold War. Addresses the ways in which public policy dictated university and college educational policies, a
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The Price of Excellence is an account of what went wrong with the great experiment to educate America. Though the story bears a negative charge, it also conveys hopeful messages of faith in the future of higher education.
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Vendeur : Trouve Books, Cincinnati, OH, Etats-Unis
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Vendeur : Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Etats-Unis
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Vendeur : Borkert, Schwarz und Zerfaß GbR, Berlin, Allemagne
Hardcover. Etat : Sehr gut. 252 p. Das Exemplar ist in einem sehr guten und sauberen Zustand ohne Anstreichungen. The copy is in a very good and clean condition without markings. - CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- The Loss of Vocation The Modern History of the American University: Where It Began The Special, American Excellence The Cold War and Higher Education -- INTELLECTUAL ARMS FOR THE TWILIGHT STRUGGLE -- The Cold War and the Academy Before the Reform of Secondary Education The Advent of Scholarship on Campus General Education for a Global Vision The Professional Revolution among the Professors Scholarship and Higher Education: The Curriculum Changes A New Breed of Student The Sectarian and Parochial Institutions To Be Young Was Very Heaven First Flower of Our Wilderness: Harvard Class of 1954 Henry Fellow at Oxford University. Italy, Germany, Israel, England The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Columbia University Graduate Studies The Kent Fellows of the National Council on Religion in Higher Education Academic Snobbery The Cold War and Me -- SPUTNIK! -- The Golden Decade The Intellectual Expansion. Area Studies A Meteoric Career Move Over, Deans, Provosts, President-We're from the Government, and We're Here to Solve Your Problems The Challenge of Mass Education: Teaching and Research Part Company Professorial Governance The Catholic, Black, and Women's Colleges Vision Problems and the New Spectacles Getting Fired (1) -- Publishing Too Much Getting Fired (2) Not Defrocked but Unsuited Paradise Finally, a Real Job. -- in a Real Academic Field -- PARROT'S BEAK -- The Campus Calamity The Golden Decade Ends The Old Order Changes: Generations Move On Turning Gold into Lead The Magaziner Report The Country Turns against the Academy Wall Street and Madison Avenue Meet on Campus Lost Faith, Lost Trust A Depression? Averted, But Not Forever Losing Luster Leaving Dartmouth The Ethnicization of Learning The New Egalitarianism on Campus Teaching Scholarship Defender of the Faith -- THE GREAT TRADITION DIES -- The Campus and the Country Part Company "A Commencement Speech You'll Never Hear" That the Whole World Heard The Dumbing Down of the Universities Reagan's Revenge Dead, White, Male and Proud of It Turning Inward Falling Behind The Consumer Is Always Right The Other Choice A Career Concludes, the Ostracism Commences Scholarship Makes No Difference Here A Time of Troubles Getting Fired-Again Restoring Reason, Renewing Rationality It's the Faculty, Stupid! -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX. ISBN 0826408532 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 250. N° de réf. du vendeur 1254362
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Vendeur : Borkert, Schwarz und Zerfaß GbR, Berlin, Allemagne
Etat : Sehr gut. 252 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Rubbed jacket, otherwise very good and clean. / Beriebener Umschlag, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Amid the scores of recent jeremiads on the present state of higher education, The Price of Excellence is a unique book. It is unique in that here we have an account of what went wrong with the great experiment to educate America. It is unique in that though the story bears a negative charge, it also conveys hopeful messages of faith in the future of higher education. And it is unique in that it offers an objective historical analysis of the rise and fall of higher education by a researcher trained in the 1980s, and by a senior scholar who was both participant in creating the golden age of American higher education and victim of its dissolution. - Jacob Neusner is a widely honored and published scholar. He has served on the National Council of the Humanities and Arts, and is Distinguished Research Professor of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida. Noam M. M. Neusner is a reporter for the Tampa Tribune and a graduate of Johns Hopkins University. He studied at the Poynter Institute for Journalism. ISBN 9780826408532 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 495 Original cloth with dust jacket. N° de réf. du vendeur 1194829
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Vendeur : SHIMEDIA, Brooklyn, NY, Etats-Unis
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