(Ebook pdf) College (Un)bound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students
▲ Jeffrey J. Selingo ▲
| #48881 in Books | 2015-04-28 | 2015-04-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.00 x6.00l,.0 | File Name: 1477800743 | 240 pages
||304 of 316 people found the following review helpful.| A (perhaps unrealistically) rosy view of the future of higher education|By Monica J. Kern|I am a former college professor who left academia a year ago, in large part because I did not care for the trends I was seeing in higher education. So when I had the opportunity to review this book, I was eager to do so, especially given the background and expertise of the author, Je||"Selingo envisions a fundamental shift in how degrees are awarded — not on the basis of credit hours completed but on competency demonstrated. The colleges that survive will be those, in Selingo’s words, that ‘prove their worth.’&rdquo
What is the value of a college degree?
The four-year college experience is as American as apple pie. So is the belief that higher education offers a ticket to a better life. But with student-loan debt surpassing the $1 trillion mark and unemployment of college graduates at historic highs, people are beginning to question that value.
In College (Un)bound, Jeffrey J. Selingo, editor at large of the Chronicle of Higher Education, argues...
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