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082			_a379.073 _bDEM-
245			_aDemocracy's Education _b:Public Work, Citizenship, and The Future of Colleges And Universities
260			_aNashville _bVanderbilt University Press, _c2015
300			_axii,272p.
520			_aToday 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. "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.
650			_aEducation _vDemocracy and educatiion _vHigher education
650			_aCitizenship _vpublic law
700			_aBoyte, Harry C.
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