Democracy's Education  :Public Work, Citizenship, and The Future of Colleges And Universities 
edited by:Boyte, Harry C.

 - Nashville  Vanderbilt University Press,   2015 
 - xii,272p. 
<br/><br/> Today Americans feel powerless in the face of problems on every front. Such feelings are acute in higher education, where educators are experiencing an avalanche of changes: cost cutting, new technologies, and demands that higher education be narrowly geared to the needs of today's workplace. College graduates face mounting debt and uncertain job prospects, and worry about a coarsening of the mass culture and the erosion of authentic human relationships. Higher education is increasingly seen, and often portrays itself, as a ticket to individual success--a private good, not a public one.<br/><br/>"Democracy's Education" grows from the American Commonwealth Partnership, a year-long project to revitalize the democratic narrative of higher education that began with an invitation to Harry Boyte from the White House to put together a coalition aimed at strengthening higher education as a public good. The project was launched at the beginning of 2012 to mark the 150th anniversary of the Morrill Act, which created land grant colleges. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780826520364 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Education--Democracy and educatiion--Higher education<br/>Citizenship--public law
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>379.073  / DEM-