The Qualified Student: A History of Selective College Admission in America

ISBN-13: 9781138538061 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 422 str.

Harold S. Wechsler

Opis

In The Qualified Student Harold S

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Harold S. Wechsler