In "In College: What It Is, Was, and Should be," by Andrew Delbanco, the Columbia American Studies professor and National Humanities Medal recipient author states that the dire threat to higher education is the shift of the American college into a factory that pumps out hard-science applied...
Andrew DelbancoCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITYWhat . . . are today’s prevailing answers to the question, what is college for? There are basically three. The mon answer is an economic one, though it is really two linked answers: first, that providing more people with a college education is good for ...
Andrew DelbancoCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITYWhat . . . are today’s prevailing answers to the question, what is college for? There are basically three. The most common answer is an economic one, though it is really two linked answers: first, that providing more people with a college education is good...
college: every fall the teacher has aged by a year, butthe class is replenished with students who stay forever young.1For this and many other reasons, the relation betweenteacher and student is a delicate one, perhaps not as fraught asthat between parent and child, or between spouses or ...
Andrew Delbanco COLUMBI A UNI VERSI TY W hat . . . are today’s prevailing answers to the question, what is college for? There are basically three. The most common answer is an economic one, though it is really two linked answers: rst, that providing more people with a college educatio...
Opening Plenary: "What is College For?" At a time of rising public anxiety about the cost and value of liberal education, Andrew Delbanco, author of College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be, will speak about the past, present, and future of a distinctive institution: the Americ... A...
the college idea has proved hard to kill. In his penetrating account of the history and meaning of the American college, Andrew Delbanco invokes a diary entry by a student at a small Methodist college in southwest Virginia in 1850 that helps explain the appeal and endurance of the college ...
Andrew Delbanco, College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be . Soc 50, 89–91 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-012-9623-z Download citation Published22 December 2012 Issue DateFebruary 2013 DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-012-9623-z Keywords Comic Book College Curriculum Mortgage ...
Andrew DelbancoCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITYWhat . . . are today’s prevailing answers to the question, what is college for? There are basically three. The mon answer is an economic one, though it is really two linked answers: first, that providing more people with a college education is good for ...
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