In a New York Times article titled “Making College ‘Relevant’” (December 29, 2009), Kate Zernike reported on the various responses of academic institutions to increasing pressure, from both parents and students, to show that the expense of a liberal-arts education is worth it. Thomas College, a liberal arts school in Maine, advertises itself as Home of the Guaranteed Jo (...)
November 30, 1999
Books
The Old College Try
The Marketplace of IdeasReform and Resistance in the American UniversityLouis MenandW. W. Norton, $24.95, 176 pp.
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