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The Future of Higher Education: Rhetoric, Reality and the Risks of the Marketreviewed by David Allyn - 2005 Title: The Future of Higher Education: Rhetoric, Reality and the Risks of the Market Author(s): Frank Newman, Lara Couturier, Jamie Scurie Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco ISBN: 0787969729, Pages: 284, Year: 2004 Search for book at Amazon.com Sometimes I fear for higher education in America, private and public. Leaders and faculty members of private colleges often sound woefully out of touch with—and coldly indifferent to—the day-to-day concerns and economic anxieties of parents and students. College students, who, unlike their professors, do not have tenured jobs, spend their undergraduate years hoping and praying that it will all pay off come graduation. Yet many administrators and faculty members at elite liberal arts schools speak as if the only students who truly mattered were the ones who would gladly shell out $100,000 for the pure privilege of learning for learning’s sake (even if that means taking classes with professors who don’t want—or know how—to teach). Students who worry about their grades, who major in subjects that might have practical advantages after college, or who question the value of a liberal arts education in a market-oriented economy are looked upon as... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- David Allyn
New Jersey SEEDS E-mail Author DAVID ALLYN, Ph.D. is a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia University. He holds a Ph.D. in Intellectual History from Harvard University and is currently the Associate Director of Special Projects for New Jersey SEEDS, a nonprofit educational organization serving high-achieving, low-income students.
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