Between Mission and Market (eBook)

The Freshman Year in a Corporate Age

Daniel Rosenberg (Autor)

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2017
322 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-3267-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This book confronts some of the main 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.

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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.

Autor

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

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.4.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 45 Illustrations including: - 37 Black & White Illustrations; - 7 Tables; - 1 Text Boxes.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: Academic capitalism • College admissions • College freshmen • Corporate University • First-year experience • freshman year • higher education • Scholastic Aptitude Test • Standardized testing
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-3267-5 / 1498532675
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-3267-9 / 9781498532679