Poisoning the Ivy: The Seven Deadly Sins and Other Vices of Higher Education in America

ISBN-13: 9780765600714 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 230 str.

Michael Lewis;University of Masachusetts

Opis

Anyone who teaches in American higher education realizes that the Academy has significant and pervasive problems in its self-governance, effectiveness and in according value for soaring costs. This is an account of what, according to the author, ails America's universities and colleges.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. An Almanac of Academic Betrayals: The Phenomenology of Denial, Chapter 2. Hear, See, and Speak No Evil: The Facilitation of Denial, Chapter 3. The Seven Pedagogical Sins: Dirty Little Secrets 1 , Chapter 4. The Bad Joke of Scholarship: Dirty Little Secrets 2, Chapter 5. The Spurious Shield of Specialness: The Need for Reform, Appendix: A Single Standard, Please

O autorze

Michael Lewis,  Northampton, Massachusetts, USA