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Author: Derek Bok
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691206615
ISBN 10: 0691206619
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 17 May 2022
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
,
Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
One of Forbes' Best Higher Education Books of 2020 A useful though eminently debatable case for reform in the interest of teaching to today's needs. * Kirkus Reviews * In this highly readable and engaging book, he delineates how colleges can better prepare students to gain the skills and develop the habits of mind necessary to succeed in life, especially in a fast-moving, knowledge-based society. . . . Highly recommended for college faculty and administrators, and anyone interested in how college students can find meaning and purpose in life. * Library Journal * Higher Expectations provides a helpful guide for those who hope to fortify and reform this dwindling but essential collection of institutions. Bok's vision of the purposes of higher education is unlikely to become the official state religion, but it could serve as a beautiful hymnal in dissenting churches. ---Jay P. Greene, Education Next
""One of Forbes' Best Higher Education Books of 2020"" ""A useful though eminently debatable case for reform in the interest of teaching to today’s needs."" * Kirkus Reviews * ""In this highly readable and engaging book, he delineates how colleges can better prepare students to gain the skills and develop the habits of mind necessary to succeed in life, especially in a fast-moving, knowledge-based society. . . . Highly recommended for college faculty and administrators, and anyone interested in how college students can find meaning and purpose in life."" * Library Journal * ""Higher Expectations provides a helpful guide for those who hope to fortify and reform this dwindling but essential collection of institutions. Bok’s vision of the purposes of higher education is unlikely to become the official state religion, but it could serve as a beautiful hymnal in dissenting churches.""---Jay P. Greene, Education Next
"""One of Forbes' Best Higher Education Books of 2020"" ""A useful though eminently debatable case for reform in the interest of teaching to today’s needs."" * Kirkus Reviews * ""In this highly readable and engaging book, he delineates how colleges can better prepare students to gain the skills and develop the habits of mind necessary to succeed in life, especially in a fast-moving, knowledge-based society. . . . Highly recommended for college faculty and administrators, and anyone interested in how college students can find meaning and purpose in life."" * Library Journal * ""Higher Expectations provides a helpful guide for those who hope to fortify and reform this dwindling but essential collection of institutions. Bok’s vision of the purposes of higher education is unlikely to become the official state religion, but it could serve as a beautiful hymnal in dissenting churches.""---Jay P. Greene, Education Next"
Author Information
Derek Bok is the 300th Anniversary University Research Professor at Harvard University. He served as the twenty-fifth president of Harvard from 1971 to 1991, and as interim president from 2006 to 2007. His many books include The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges, Higher Education in America, Our Underachieving Colleges, and The Shape of the River (all Princeton).
