Trying Higher Education: An Eight Count Indictment.

Finn, Chester E., Jr.

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Publication Date: 1984

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Trying Higher Education: An Eight Count Indictment.

Finn, Chester E., Jr.

Change, v16 n4 p28-33,47-51 May-Jun 1984

It is time for national scrutiny of the quality of higher education. Some indictments of higher education include: unqualified students; diluted standards, coddled faculty, little scholarly research, no quality control, inadequate measures of performance, declining academic freedom, and self-righteousness. (MLW)

Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Academic Standards, College Faculty, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Futures (of Society), Higher Education

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