336 Pages
by
Routledge
338 Pages
by
Routledge
338 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is an analysis of higher education in the past half century, a period of dramatic change and democratization. But it is more than that. The author has been a participant in the struggle to stem the decline in higher education, as it moved from an emphasis on classical liberal values toward relativism and ideological extremism. This volume reflects an awareness of what has been lost, but sees... Read more
Preface
Introduction
1. The Tenured Left
2. College Life from 1968 to the Present (The Barzun Perspective)
3. Decline and Revival
4. Experiments in the Academy
5. Off Track at Specifi c Institutions
6. Sports and Educational Standards
7. The Student Perspective
8. The Heroes in the Halls of Ivy
9. Scholarship and the Curriculum
Index
Biography
Herbert I. London
