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Informationen zum Autor Daniel Rosenberg is professor of history and director of the General Studies Learning Community in the College of Arts & Sciences at Adelphi University. Klappentext This book confronts some of the main controversies in higher education, particularly those affecting first-year students: high-stakes testing in general (particularly the SAT), the intensification of student debt and the financial sentence imposed upon all who incur it, and the dramatic pressures placed upon freshmen as they transition to college. Zusammenfassung This book confronts some of the main controversies in higher education! particularly those affecting first-year students: high-stakes testing in general (particularly the SAT)! the intensification of student debt and the financial sentence imposed upon all who incur it! and the dramatic pressures placed upon freshmen as they transition to college. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Lessons of a Freshman Program Chapter 1: College as Big Business Chapter 2: The Crisis of the SAT Chapter 3: The Freshman Landscape Chapter 4: Roots of the General Studies Program at Adelphi Chapter 5: The Program Defines Itself Chapter 6: The Struggle for Survival Chapter 7: The Grades of General Studies Students Chapter 8: College Graduation and High School Average Chapter 9: The SATs and General Studies Chapter 10: Demographics and General Studies Conclusion: Can General Studies Endure? Bibliography About the Author
