1st Edition
The Qualified Student A History of Selective College Admission in America
By Harold S. Wechsler
Copyright 2014
424 Pages
by
Routledge
422 Pages
by
Routledge
422 Pages
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Routledge
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In The Qualified Student Harold S. Wechsler focuses on methods of student selection used by institutions of higher education in the United States. More specifically, he discusses the way that college and university reformers employed those methods to introduce higher education into a broader cross-section of America, by extending access to an increased number of students from nontraditional... Read more
Preface to the Transaction Edition Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgments Part I: Prerequisites 1 Admission to College and University 2 Systems and Students: The University of Michigan and Certificates 3 The Spread of the Certificate System Part II: Columbia and the Selective Function 4 Enter Butler 5 From the Committee of Ten to the College Board 6 Internal Improvements 7 Repelling the Invasion: Columbia and the Jewish Student 8 Who Runs New York? Part III: Implications 9 The University Spirit and the University of Chicago 10 The Selective Function and the Transition from Elite to Mass Higher Education 11 Higher Education for All: The Mission of the City University of New York 12 The Future of the Selective Function 13 Back to the Future Bibliography Index
Biography
Harold S. Wechsler
