Between Mission and Market

The Freshman Year in a Corporate Age

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

Between Mission and Market: The Freshman Year in a Corporate Age focuses on the arrival of college freshmen at the moment of the transformation; it uses Adelphi University in suburban New York City to study an attempt to resolve first-year difficulties. As higher education institutions turn into enterprises run on business models, the pressures of getting into college, including the taking of the SAT and ACT, have induced stress, addictions, eating disorders, drug use, and mental problems. However, special programs to ease the first-year transition through counseling and support are run as cheaply as possible. This book confronts some of the cardinal controversies in higher education, particularly those affecting first-year students: high-stakes testing in general (particularly the SAT), the intensification of student debt and the financial sentence imposed upon all who incur it, and the dramatic pressures placed upon freshmen as they transition to college.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-04-26
Mått:161 x 237 x 24 mm
Vikt:599 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:322
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498532662

Utforska kategorier

Högskola och universitet inom Psykologi och pedagogik

Mer om författaren

Daniel Rosenberg is professor of history and director of the General Studies Learning Community in the College of Arts & Sciences at Adelphi University.

Recensioner i media

Between Mission and Market: The Freshman Year in a Corporate Age uses the General Studies Program at Adelphi University as case study to reveal how the corporatization of American higher education has undermined its mission to serve the common good. Rosenberg shows how the corporate university distorts the relationship between students and instructors and disadvantages students from working class backgrounds, particularly students of color and immigrants. It is must reading for those who care about the future of higher education.

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Lessons of a Freshman ProgramChapter 1: College as Big BusinessChapter 2: The Crisis of the SATChapter 3: The Freshman LandscapeChapter 4: Roots of the General Studies Program at AdelphiChapter 5: The Program Defines ItselfChapter 6: The Struggle for SurvivalChapter 7: The Grades of General Studies StudentsChapter 8: College Graduation and High School Average Chapter 9: The SATs and General StudiesChapter 10: Demographics and General StudiesConclusion: Can General Studies Endure?BibliographyAbout the Author