Over the past decade, a wave of Chinese international undergraduate students—mostly self-funded—has swept across American higher education. From 2005 to 2015, undergraduate enrollment from China rose from under 10,000 to over 135,000. This privileged yet diverse group of young people from a changing China must navigate the complications and confusions of their formative years w...(展开全部)

Over the past decade, a wave of Chinese international undergraduate students—mostly self-funded—has swept across American higher education. From 2005 to 2015, undergraduate enrollment from China rose from under 10,000 to over 135,000. This privileged yet diverse group of young people from a changing China must navigate the complications and confusions of their formative years w...(展开全部)

Winner, 2021 Best Book Award, Comparative and International Education Society Higher Education Special Interest Group Winner, 2021 Best Book Award, Comparative and International Education Society Study Abroad and International Studies Special Interest Group Honorable Mention, 2021 Pierre Bourdieu Award for the Best Book in Sociology of Education, Section on the Sociology of Edu...(展开全部)

The lack of academic integrity combined with the prevalence of fraud and other forms of unethical behavior are problems that higher education faces in both developing and developed countries, at mass and elite universities, and at public and private institutions. While academic misconduct is not new, massification, internationalization, privatization, digitalization, and commer...(展开全部)

The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary Am...(展开全部)

德里克·博克 美国当代杰出教育家、法学家和社会学家，美国当代颇具影响力的大学校长之一，西方高等教育史上举足轻重的思想家和实践家。 两度担任哈佛大学校长的人。1971年博克临危受命，担任哈佛大学第25任校长，他采取种种措施帮助教师与学生重塑信心，并引领学校回归正常的教学和科研轨道，直至1991年退休，任期长达20年。2006年，博克再度重返哈佛，于2006—2007年间担任代理校长，接替被迫辞职的校长劳伦斯·萨默斯，也因此成为近50年来任期最长的哈佛校长。 “教育界的诺贝尔奖”格文美尔教育奖获得者。在任期间，博克致力于哈佛大学课程改革，将效果不佳的通识教育转为课程教育，奠定了现代大学的课程标准，在美国乃至全世界产生了巨大影响，被公认为美国教育界最有影响力的人物之一。 世界一流大学争相效仿的“博克教学与学习中心”创始人。博克非常关注本科教学质量，...(展开全部)

Publisher Comments: The Closing of the American Mind, a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary event. In this acclaimed number one national best-seller, one of our country's most distinguished political philosophers argues that the social/political crisis of 20th-century America is really an intellectual crisis. Allan Bloom's sweeping analysis is essent...(展开全部)

Publisher Comments: The Closing of the American Mind, a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary event. In this acclaimed number one national best-seller, one of our country's most distinguished political philosophers argues that the social/political crisis of 20th-century America is really an intellectual crisis. Allan Bloom's sweeping analysis is essent...(展开全部)

Colleges and universities are among the most cherished—and controversial—institutions in the United States. In this updated edition of A History of American Higher Education, John R. Thelin offers welcome perspective on the triumphs and crises of this highly influential sector in American life. Exploring American higher education from its founding in the seventeenth century to ...(展开全部)

Colleges and universities are among the most cherished institutions in American society—and also among the most controversial. Yet affirmative action and skyrocketing tuition are only the most recent dissonant issues to emerge. Recounting the many crises and triumphs in the long history of American higher education, historian John Thelin provides welcome perspective on this inf...(展开全部)