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College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be | Andrew Delbanco
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As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experiencean exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peersis in danger of becoming a thing of the past. In College, prominent cultural critic Andrew Delbanco offers a trenchant defense of such an education, and warns that it is becoming a privilege reserved for the relatively rich. In describing what a true college education should be, he demonstrates why making it available to as many young people as possible remains central to Americas democratic promise. In a brisk and vivid historical narrative, Delbanco explains how the idea of college arose in the colonial period from the Puritan idea of the gathered church, how it struggled to survive in the nineteenth century in the shadow of the new research universities, and how, in the twentieth century, it slowly opened its doors to women, minorities, and students from low-income families. He describes the unique strengths of Americas colleges in our era of globalization and, while recognizing the growing centrality of science, technology, and vocational subjects in the curriculum, he mounts a vigorous defense of a broadly humanistic education for all. Acknowledging the serious financial, intellectual, and ethical challenges that all colleges face today, Delbanco considers what is at stake in the urgent effort to protect these venerable institutions for future generations. In a new afterword, Delbanco responds to recent developmentsboth ominous and promisingin the changing landscape of higher education.
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EadieB
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Day 2 - #College #LetsTravelAugust

These are the colleges my daughters attended.

Kristin went to Muhlenberg in Allentown PA and The University of Pennsylvania to become a veterinarian.

Meredith went to Penn State University and now she is a Transfer Credit Evaluator at The University of Virginia.

Crazeedi 💗💗PA and WV universities!! 5y
Megabooks Go vets!! 🐶🐈🐎 5y
OriginalCyn620 Awesome! 👌🏻 5y
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EadieB @Megabooks I remember reading that you are a vet too! Where did you go to school? 5y
Megabooks Tennessee 🧡 5y
EadieB @Megabooks Nice! Not too many schools to choose from! 5y
Megabooks @EadieB Nope!! More now, but I‘m not sure how I feel about these schools without teaching hospitals. Time will tell! I got into 3 and TN was the closest to family, so that was how I decided. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I‘m not sure it was the best way to decide where to go, but I feel I got a good education. 5y
EadieB @Megabooks Sometimes you just have to decide what‘s best for your needs! At least it worked out! 5y
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My reading (for fun) has been pretty much non-existent these last few weeks. My college courses are kicking my butt, so I haven‘t had much time to myself. Luckily the semester is halfway through!!

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Megabooks
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Watching a Frontline on on for-profit colleges. Once I start watch them, I can't stop. I love all kinds on nonfiction 🤣🤣 It's almost all the TV I watch. Long live PBS!

Megabooks BTW - I want to read this book now! 8y
EvieBee Amen! PBS forever! 8y
8little_paws I should watch this, it sounds like my kind of TV. I never watch TV these days.... Last time I did was Thanksgiving break! 8y
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Megabooks @EvieBee84 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 8y
Megabooks @8little_paws I hardly ever watch tv either, but I make some exceptions. 8y
Kathrin Sounds interesting... there was a chapter on for profit universities in the tagged book and it made me livid... 8y
Megabooks @Kathrin Added to TBR! 8y
Aims42 I echo your sentiment of 'long live PBS' 🙌🏻 8y
kspenmoll Yes to PBS😊 8y
Megabooks @Aims42 woo hoo!! 🎉🎉 8y
Megabooks @kspenmoll 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 8y
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