TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hersh,Richard H.
AU  - Merrow,John
TI  - Declining by degrees: higher education at risk 
SN  - 9781403973160
AV  - LA227 .D435 2005
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - United States
N1  - 4; The media : degrees of coverage; Gene I. Maeroff --; Ready or not? Where the public stands on higher education reform; Deborah Wadsworth --; College admissions : a substitute for quality?; James Fallows --; Caveat Lector : unexamined assumptions about quality in higher education; Jay Mathews --; Liberal education : slip-sliding away?; Carol G. Schneider --; Six challenges to the American university; Vartan Gregorian --; Beyond markets and individuals : a focus on educational goals; Howard Gardner --; This little student went to market; David L. Kirp --; How undergraduate education became college lite--and a personal apology; Murray Sperber --; America's modern peculiar institution; Frank Deford --; Worlds apart : disconnects between students and their colleges; Arthur Levine --; Leaving the newcomers behind; Roberto Suro and Richard Fry --; Talking the talk : rhetoric and reality for students of color; Heather D. Wathington --; It is only a port of call : reflections on the state of higher education; Julie Johnson Kidd --; The curriculum and college life : confronting unfulfilled promises; Leon Botstein --; Afterword : What difference does a college make?; Richard H. Hersh; 2; https://ciu.libwizard.com/f/copyright-requests
N2  - Two decades ago A Nation at Risk sounded a national alarm on K-12 education. Now, an equally urgent alarm is being sounded for higher education in America. In Declining by Degrees, leading authors and educators such as Tom Wolfe, Jim Fallows, and Jay Mathews provide us with a valuable understanding of the serious issues facing colleges today, such as budget cuts, grade inflation, questionable recruitment strategies, and a major focus on Big Time Sports. Tied to the PBS documentary of the same name, Declining by Degrees creates a national discussion about the future of higher education and what we can do about it
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