Higher Education


Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses
Student Development in College: Theory, Research, and Practice
College Unbound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students
A History of American Higher Education
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be
Educated
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality
In Defense of a Liberal Education
The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton – A Landmark History of Elite College Merit and American Opportunity
Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More (The William G. Bowen Series)
How Colleges Work: The Cybernetics of Academic Organization and Leadership (Jossey Bass Higher & Adult Education Series)
Excellent Sheep by William DeresiewiczAcademically Adrift by Richard ArumFail U. by Charles J. SykesThe Tyranny of the Meritocracy by Lani GuinierThe Chosen by Jerome Karabel
Controversies in Higher Education
172 books — 43 voters

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. CoveyFlow by Mihály CsíkszentmihályiSwitch by Chip HeathSmarter Faster Better by Charles DuhiggThe Leadership Challenge by James M. Kouzes
TIAA ELN 1 Reading List
53 books — 1 voter
The Secret History by Donna TarttStoner by John  WilliamsThe Idiot by Elif BatumanIf We Were Villains by M.L. RioCampusland by Scott  Johnston
Best Fiction Set in Academia
158 books — 155 voters

Ehsan Sehgal
Higher education collapses if the morals and character fail to prove and show that.
Ehsan Sehgal

Neel Burton
Philosophy is the only study that is truly liberal, insofar as it is the only study that can liberate the soul. By comparison, all others are trifling and childish.
Neel Burton, Augustus: Invitation to Philosophy

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