Between Mission and Market
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Between Mission and Market

The Freshman Year in a Corporate Age

  1. 323 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Between Mission and Market

The Freshman Year in a Corporate Age

About this book

Between Mission and Market: The Freshman Year in a Corporate Age focuses on the arrival of college freshmen at the moment of the transformation; it uses Adelphi University in suburban New York City to study an attempt to resolve first-year difficulties. As higher education institutions turn into enterprises run on business models, the pressures of getting into college, including the taking of the SAT and ACT, have induced stress, addictions, eating disorders, drug use, and mental problems. However, special programs to ease the first-year transition through counseling and support are run as cheaply as possible. This book confronts some of the cardinal controversies in higher education, particularly those affecting first-year students: high-stakes testing in general (particularly the SAT), the intensification of student debt and the financial sentence imposed upon all who incur it, and the dramatic pressures placed upon freshmen as they transition to college.

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Information

Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9798216203629
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter One: College as Big Business
  5. Chapter Two: The Crisis of the SAT
  6. Chapter Three: The Freshman Landscape
  7. Chapter Four: Roots of the General Studies Program at Adelphi
  8. Chapter Five: The Program Defines Itself
  9. Chapter Six: The Struggle for Survival
  10. Chapter Seven: The Grades of General Studies Students
  11. Chapter Eight: College Graduation and High School Average
  12. Chapter Nine: The SATs and General Studies
  13. Chapter Ten: Demographics and General Studies
  14. Conclusion
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. About the Author