Two Cheers for Higher Education: Why American Universities Are Stronger Than Everand How to Meet the Challenges They Face
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Two Cheers for Higher Education: Why American Universities Are Stronger Than Everand How to Meet the Challenges They Face
By (Author) Steven Brint
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
13th October 2020
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
378.73
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Paperback
504
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
Description
A leading expert challenges the prevailing gloomy outlook on higher education with solid evidence of its successes Crushing student debt, rapidly eroding state funding, faculty embroiled in speech controversies, a higher-education market disrupted by online competition-today's headlines suggest that universities' power to advance knowledge and s
Reviews
"Co-Winner of the Emory Elliott Book Award, UCR Center for Ideas & Society"
"Honorable Mention for the Pierre Bourdieu Award for Best Book, Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association"
"A Forbes' Pick for The Year's Best Books About Higher Education, 2019"
"The most thorough, sweeping, and balanced book that I have read on the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary colleges and universities."---Steven Mintz, Inside Higher Education
Author Bio
Steven Brint is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside, where he directs the Colleges & Universities 2000 Project. His books include Schools and Societies, In an Age of Experts, and The Diverted Dream, and he has written for the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Washington Post.
