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What Is College For
The Public Purpose of Higher
Education
Edited by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Levy
Institute Research Professor, Bard College; senior
scholar, Levy Economics Institute; and senior fellow,
Bard Prison Initiative; and Harry Lewis, Gordon
McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard
University
New
Edition
NEW
“This eclectic set of
essays offers an engaging
call to sustain core
values like civic education...even
as a hugely
different population with
very different needs
and desires fills college
classrooms.”
—Karen Arenson,
former New York
Times reporter and
editor
“A powerful, compelling case for the civic purpose
of higher education and provides sensible strategies
for renewing and strengthening that purpose.”
—Ira Harkavy, Director, Netter Center for
Community Partnerships, University of
Pennsylvania
Best
Seller
“Offers us a combination of exposition and provocation
that is required reading for educators unafraid
of asking ‘Why’.”
—Lee S. Shulman, Stanford University
At a time when higher education attendance
has never felt more mandatory for career success
and economic growth, this collection ask
readers to consider the civic mission of higher
education as equally vital to the nation’s wellbeing.
Should higher education serve a greater
public interest In what ways should colleges
and universities be asked to participate in
public controversies What should colleges
do to foster greater intellectual curiosity and
aesthetic appreciation in their students and
communities, and why is this important for all
Americans
Contents & Contributors:
1. Renewing the Civic Mission of American
Higher Education, Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
and Harry Lewis
2. Science, Enlightenment, and Intellectual
Tensions in Higher Education, Douglas
Taylor
3. Liberated Consumers and the Liberal Arts
College, Elaine Tuttle Hansen
4. The Other 75%: College Education Beyond
the Elite, Paul Attewell and David E. Lavin
5. Professional Education: Aligning Knowledge,
Expertise, and Public Purpose, William M.
Sullivan
6. Graduate Education: The Nerve Center of
Higher Education, Catharine R. Stimpson
Audience: Higher education deans, provosts,
presidents, trustees, government officials, and
foundation officers; courses in higher education
administration, educational policy, sociology of
education.
2011/176 pp./PB, $30.95/5275-3/HC, $69/5276-0
SAT Wars
The Case for Test-Optional College
Admissions
Edited by Joseph A. Soares, Professor of
Sociology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem,
North Carolina
Foreword by David Hawkins
New
Edition
NEW
Best
Seller
“This book is an important
contribution to the
reassessment of the use
of standardized tests in
college admissions….
Colleges that are wellprepared
for a discussion
about standardized
admission tests will
understand how their
research aligns with the
information provided in
this publication”
—David Hawkins,
National Association for College
Admission Counseling
Are the best and the brightest students the
ones who can check off the most correct boxes
on a multiple-choice exam Or are there better
ways of measuring ability and promise
In this penetrating and revealing look at
high-stakes standardized admissions tests,
Joseph Soares demonstrates the far-reaching
and mostly negative impact of the tests on
American life and calls for nothing less than a
national policy change.
Contents & Contributors:
1. The Preferences of Privilege, Daniel Golden
2. Reflections on a Century of College
Admissions Tests
Richard C. Atkinson and Saul Geiser
3. SAT Wars at the University of California
John Aubrey Douglass
4. Abolishing the SAT, Charles Murray
5. College Admissions Assessments
Robert J. Sternberg
6. The SAT, Jay Rosner
7. The SAT as a Predictor of Success at a
Liberal Arts College
Kevin Rask and Jill Tiefenthaler
8. The New SAT and Academic Performance
at a Flagship Public University
Christopher Cornwell, David B. Mustard,
and Jessica Van Parys
9. Predictors of Academic Success at a Highly
Selective Private Research University
Teresa Wonnell, Chloe Melissa Rothstein,
and John Latting
10. Test Scores Do Not Equal Merit
Robert Schaeffer
11. Going Test-Optional, Martha Allman
12. Diversity Outcomes of Test-Optional
Policies, Thomas J. Espenshade and Chang
Young Chung
Audience: College admissions counselors, high
school guidance counselors, public policy
researchers, and parents; courses in higher education,
education policy, sociology of education,
ethnic studies.
2011/240 pp./PB, $29.95/5262-3/HC, $66/5263-0
Asians in the
Ivory Tower
Dilemmas of Racial Inequality
in American Higher Education
Robert T. Teranishi
Foreword by
Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco
“It covers so much critical territory
and shatters so many myths,
prejudices, and misunderstandings
that I simply cannot do justice to all it achieves.”
—From the Foreword by
Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco,
New York University
Robert Teranishi draws on his vast research to
offer a unique empirical perspective on racial
stratification in higher education through case
studies that mix quantitative data with narratives
of lived stories. He examines the educational
experiences and routes to college for
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and looks
at broader issues around racial inequality and
debates about affirmative action.
2010/216 pp./PB, $32.95/5130-5/HC, $68/5131-2
Multicultural Education Series
Creating Effective Undergraduate
Research Programs in Science
The Transformation from Student to Scientist
Edited by Roman Taraban and
Richard L. Blanton
The first comprehensive, data-based presentation
of the benefits to students who actively participate
in authentic science research programs.
See page 29 for full description
Becoming Adult Learners
Principles and Practices for Effective
Development
Eleanor Drago-Severson
Foreword by Larry Daloz
“This book has wide appeal to educators and
researchers alike.” —Harvard Educational Review
Applying renowned Harvard University psychologist
Robert Kegan’s constructive-developmental
theory, Drago-Severson depicts an in-depth
investigation into how and why adults develop
“ways of knowing” to better prepare them for
their work in the 21st century. This book provides
practical suggestions for applying Kegan’s
theory in adult education classrooms that will
enable teachers, curriculum developers, program
designers, and policymakers to better respond to
adult learners’ strengths and learning needs.
2004/240 pp./PB, $30.95/4484-0
Viens: Multiple Intelligences
and Adult Literacy
A Sourcebook for Practitioners
Julie Viens and Silja Kallenbach
Foreword by Howard Gardner
2004/168 pp./PB, $29.95/4346-1
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