Coming to Grips with Higher Education
- ISBN-10
- 1475838441
- ISBN-13
- 9781475838442
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 192
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-10-01
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Author
- Michael T. Nietzel
Description
This book raises some inconvenient truths about higher education, and it challenges several of its cherished assumptions. It then offers specific recommendation for fundamental changes in institutional mission and funding, financial aid, academic curricula and student learning, campus spending, faculty tenure, and intercollegiate athletics.
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