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- 9781586485375
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- 14/08/2007
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America's great research universities are the envy of the world -- and none
more so than Harvard. Never before has the competition for excellence been
fiercer. But while striving to be unsurpassed in the quality of its faculty
and students, Universities have forgotten that the fundamental purpose of
undergraduate education is to turn young people into adults who will take
responsibility for society. In Excellence Without a Soul, Harry Lewis, a
Harvard professor for more than thirty years and Dean of Harvard College for
eight, draws from his experience to explain how our great universities have
abandoned their mission. Harvard is unique; it is the richest, oldest, most
powerful university in America, and so it has set many standards, for better
or worse. Lewis evaluates the failures of this grand institution -- from the
hot button issue of grade inflation to the recent controversy over Harvard's
handling of date rape cases -- and makes an impassioned argument for change.
The loss of purpose in America's great colleges is not inconsequential.
Harvard, Yale, Stanford -- these places drive American education, on which so
much of our future depends. It is time to ask whether they are doing the job
we want them to do.
more so than Harvard. Never before has the competition for excellence been
fiercer. But while striving to be unsurpassed in the quality of its faculty
and students, Universities have forgotten that the fundamental purpose of
undergraduate education is to turn young people into adults who will take
responsibility for society. In Excellence Without a Soul, Harry Lewis, a
Harvard professor for more than thirty years and Dean of Harvard College for
eight, draws from his experience to explain how our great universities have
abandoned their mission. Harvard is unique; it is the richest, oldest, most
powerful university in America, and so it has set many standards, for better
or worse. Lewis evaluates the failures of this grand institution -- from the
hot button issue of grade inflation to the recent controversy over Harvard's
handling of date rape cases -- and makes an impassioned argument for change.
The loss of purpose in America's great colleges is not inconsequential.
Harvard, Yale, Stanford -- these places drive American education, on which so
much of our future depends. It is time to ask whether they are doing the job
we want them to do.
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