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After the ivory tower falls : how college broke the American dream and blew up our politics-- and ho


Bunch, William, author.
New York, NY : William Morrow an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022] 2022

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American higher education in crisis? : what everyone needs to know


Blumenstyk, Goldie.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014. 2014

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American higher education in the twenty-first century : social, political, and economic challenges



Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. 2016

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The assault on American excellence


Kronman, Anthony T., author.
New York : Free Press, 2019. 2019

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Campus confidential : how college works, or doesn't, for professors, parents, and students


Berlinerblau, Jacques, author.
Brooklyn : Melville House, [2017] 2017

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Change.edu : rebooting for the new talent economy


Rosen, Andrew S., author.
New York : Kaplan Publishing, [2011] 2011

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Changing the playbook : how power, profit, and politics transformed college sports


Chudacoff, Howard P., author.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015] 2015

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College disrupted : the great unbundling of higher education


Craig, Ryan, 1972-
New York : Palgrave Macmillan Trade, 2015. 2015

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College (un)bound : the future of higher education and what it means for students


Selingo, Jeffrey J.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2013] 2013

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College (un)bound : the future of higher education and what it means for students


Selingo, Jeffrey J.
Las Vegas, NV : Amazon Pub., 2013. 2013

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College : what it was, is, and should be


Delbanco, Andrew, 1952-
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2012] 2012

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Dismantling institutional whiteness : emerging forms of leadership in higher education



West Lafayette : Purdue University Press, [2023] 2023

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The diversity delusion : how race and gender pandering corrupt the university and undermine our cult


Mac Donald, Heather, author.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2018. 2018

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Education roads less traveled : solving America's fixation on four-year degrees


Pearlstein, Mitchell B., 1948- author.
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019] 2019

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Encouraging authenticity and spirituality in higher education


Chickering, Arthur W., 1927-
San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, [2006] 2006

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Excellence without a soul : how a great university forgot education


Lewis, Harry R.
New York : PublicAffairs, [2006] 2006

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Excellent sheep : the miseducation of the American elite and the way to a meaningful life


Deresiewicz, William, 1964-
New York, NY : Free Press, 2014. 2014

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Excellent sheep : the miseducation of the American elite and the way to a meaningful life


Deresiewicz, William, 1964- author.
[United States] : Tantor Media, Incorporated : Made available through hoopla, 2014. 2014

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The faculty factor : reassessing the American academy in a turbulent era


Finkelstein, Martin J., 1949- author.
Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. 2016

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Fail U. : the false promise of higher education


Sykes, Charles J., 1954-
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2016. 2016

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The fall of the faculty : the rise of the all-administrative university and why it matters


Ginsberg, Benjamin.
New York : Oxford University Press, [2011] 2011

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The fifth wave : the evolution of American higher education


Crow, Michael M., author.
Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2020] 2020

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The game of life : college sports and educational values : with a new preface by the authors


Shulman, James Lawrence, 1965-
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2002] 2002

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The great mistake : how we wrecked public universities and how we can fix them


Newfield, Christopher, author.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2016] 2016

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The Hesburgh papers : higher values in higher education


Hesburgh, Theodore M. (Theodore Martin), 1917-2015
Kansas City, Kan. : Andrews and McMeel, [1979] 1979

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Higher expectations : can colleges teach students what they need to know in the twenty-first century


Bok, Derek Curtis, author.
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2020. 2020

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The ideal of the university.


Wolff, Robert Paul.
Boston : Beacon Press [1969] 1969

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Is college worth it? : a former United States Secretary of Education and a liberal arts graduate exp


Bennett, William J. (William John), 1943-
Nashville, TN : Thomas Nelson, Inc., [2013] 2013

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Joining the mission : a guide for (mainly) new college faculty


VanZanten, Susan, 1955-
Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2011. 2011

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A larger sense of purpose : higher education and society


Shapiro, Harold T., 1935-
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2005] 2005

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Let's be reasonable : a conservative case for liberal education


Marks, Jonathan, 1969- author.
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021] 2021

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Liberating minds : the case for college in prison


Lagemann, Ellen Condliffe, 1945- author.
New York, NY : The New Press, 2016. 2016

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Manifesto of a tenured radical


Nelson, Cary.
New York : New York University Press, [1997] 1997

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A new U : faster + cheaper alternatives to college


Craig, Ryan, 1972- author.
Dallas, TX : BenBella Books, Inc., 2018. 2018

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Our underachieving colleges : a candid look at how much students learn and why they should be learni


Bok, Derek Curtis.
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2006] 2006

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Our Underachieving Colleges : a Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learni


Bok, Derek.
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2007. 2007

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Questing excellence in academia : a tale of two universities


Sørensen, Knut H., author.
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. 2022

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Reclaiming the game : college sports and educational values


Bowen, William G.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2003] 2003

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Redesigning liberal education : innovative design for a twenty-first-century undergraduate education



Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. 2020

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Relationship-rich education : how human connections drive success in college


Felten, Peter, author.
Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2020] 2020

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Remaking the American university : market-smart and mission-centered


Zemsky, Robert, 1940-
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2005] 2005

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Saving Higher Education in the Age of Money.



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The scholar as human : research and teaching for public impact



Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021. 2021

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Starving the beast.



Railyard Films, 2016. 2017

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Strategic planning for private higher education



New York : Haworth Press, ©1997. 1997

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The struggle to reform our colleges


Bok, Derek Curtis, author.
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017] 2017

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Take back higher education : race, youth, and the crisis of democracy in the post-Civil Rights Era


Giroux, Henry A.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 2004

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Transforming higher education : a vision for learning in the 21st century


Dolence, Michael G.
Ann Arbor, MI : Society for College and University Planning, [1995] 1995

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