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Profit and Pedagogy

Autor Daniel Rosenberg
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 mai 2017

Between Mission and Market: The Freshman Year in a Corporate Age focuses on the arrival of college freshmen at the moment of the transformation; it uses Adelphi University in suburban New York City to study an attempt to resolve first-year difficulties. As higher education institutions turn into enterprises run on business models, the pressures of getting into college, including the taking of the SAT and ACT, have induced stress, addictions, eating disorders, drug use, and mental problems. However, special programs to ease the first-year transition through counseling and support are run as cheaply as possible. This book confronts some of the cardinal controversies in higher education, particularly those affecting first-year students: high-stakes testing in general (particularly the SAT), the intensification of student debt and the financial sentence imposed upon all who incur it, and the dramatic pressures placed upon freshmen as they transition to college.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781498532662
ISBN-10: 1498532667
Pagini: 310
Dimensiuni: 161 x 237 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Lexington Books

Cuprins

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Lessons of a Freshman Program Chapter 1: College as Big Business Chapter 2: The Crisis of the SAT Chapter 3: The Freshman Landscape Chapter 4: Roots of the General Studies Program at Adelphi Chapter 5: The Program Defines Itself Chapter 6: The Struggle for Survival Chapter 7: The Grades of General Studies Students Chapter 8: College Graduation and High School Average Chapter 9: The SATs and General Studies Chapter 10: Demographics and General Studies Conclusion: Can General Studies Endure? Bibliography About the Author

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By Daniel Rosenberg

Descriere

This book confronts some of the main controversies in higher education, particularly those affecting first-year students: high-stakes testing in general (particularly the SAT), the intensification of student debt and the financial sentence imposed upon all who incur it, and the dramatic pressures placed upon freshmen as they transition to college.