What's the Point of College?: Seeking Purpose in an Age of Reform

by Johann N. Neem

Book Overview

Before we can improve college education, we need to know what it's for.

In our current age of reform, there are countless ideas about how to "fix" higher education. But before we can reconceptualize the college experience, we need to remember why we have these institutions in the first place--and what we want from them.

In What's the Point of College?, historian Johann N. Neem offers a new way to think about the major...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421429888
• ISBN13: 9781421429885
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher