Higher Education and the American Dream: Success and Its Discontents (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789639776791)

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.

Author: Marvin Lazerson
ISBN-10: 9639776793
ISBN-13: 9789639776791
Publisher: Central European University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/10/2007
Pages: 231
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2010 pg. 219