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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 experience--an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peers--is 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 arguing for what a true college education should be, he demonstrates why making it available to as many young people as possible remains central to America's 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 America's colleges in our era

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Author

ANDREW DELBANCO

Publisher

Princeton University Press. 41 William Street, Princeton, NJ 08540. Tel: 800-777-4726; Tel: 609-258-4900; Fax: 609-258-6305; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: http://press.princeton.edu

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691130736

Category

education

Subjects

Fiction, Philosophy, History

Rating

3.56 / 5 (462 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14