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Attacking the elites : what critics get wrong--and right--about America's leading universities
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Attacking the elites : what critics get wrong--and right--about America's leading universities / Derek Bok.
ISBN
9780300277159
0300277156
0300273606
9780300273601
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2024]
Copyright Notice Date
©2024
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1 online resource (xii, 234 pages)
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Print version: BOK, DEREK. ATTACKING THE ELITES. [Place of publication not identified] : YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2024
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 25, 2024
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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Title Page
Copyright Page
CONTENTS
PREFACE
PART I. The Role of Elite Universities in America
CHAPTER 1. Why Have Our Leading Universities Been So Successful, and What Responsibilities Do They Owe in Return?
CHAPTER 2. A View from the Bridge: Why Elite Presidents Are Proud of Their Universities
PART II. The Liberal Critique
CHAPTER 3. Choosing Whom to Admit to Elite Universities in an Age of Extreme Inequality
CHAPTER 4. Student Protests and the Role of Elite Universities in Combating Evil and Injustice in the World
CHAPTER 5. Reparations: The Bitter Legacy of Slavery and an Attempt to Repair the Damage
PART III. The Conservative Critique
CHAPTER 6. Are College Students Being Indoctrinated by Liberal Professors?
CHAPTER 7. The Campaign against Racial Preferences as Elite Universities Seek to Diversify Their Student Bodies
CHAPTER 8. Have Elite Universities Sacrificed Freedom of Speech in Their Effort to Provide a Supportive Environment for All Students?
PART IV. Beyond the Ideological Divide
CHAPTER 9. Should Our Leading Universities Do More to Improve the Quality of Education?
CHAPTER 10. The Many Sins of Intercollegiate Athletics
CHAPTER 11. Dire Thoughts before Daybreak about the Future of Elite Universities
CONCLUSION: What Elite Universities Could Do
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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