Gebundenes Buch

What Is College For? the Public Purpose of Higher Education

Beschreibung

At a time when higher education attendance has never felt more mandatory for career success and economic growth, this collection ask readers to consider the civic mission of higher education as equally vital to the nation's well-being and answers question such as: Should higher education serve a greater public interest; and in what ways should colleges and universities be asked to participate in public controversies?

Autor

Ellen Condliffe Lagemann is the Levy Institute Research Professor at Bard College, a senior scholar at the Levy Economics Institute, and a senior fellow at the Bard Prison Initiative. Harry Lewis is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences of Harvard University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Teachers College Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 162mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780807752760
• ISBN-10: 0807752762
• Artikelnr.: 34161938