Higher Education and the American Dream

Success and Its Discontents
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-963-9776-79-1
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 493 g

Marvin Lazerson (professor at the Central European University and the University of Pennsylvania) considers the successes of higher education in the USA and how this has also bred discontent. He traces the development of higher education from the last half of the twentieth century, and considers why the expansion occurred, how it became an industry, and the increasing role of education in job attainment, as well as problems like rising costs, debates about the economic worth of higher education, and the decline in its civic, moral, and intellectual purposes. He also discusses changes in governance to a more business-like model, the managerial imperatives colleges face, changes to curriculum and research, and reform.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lazerson, Marvin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments, Introduction: Houses, automobiles, and higher education, Part I The Gospel of Getting Ahead, Part II Governance and Managerial Dilemmas, Part III The Learning Conundrum, References, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marvin Lazerson is Professor of Higher Education in the School of Public Policy, Central European University and Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania.