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Our Underachieving Colleges : a Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More

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Drawing on a large body of empirical evidence, former Harvard President Derek Bok examines how much progress college students actually make toward widely accepted goals of undergraduate education. His conclusions are sobering. Although most students make gains in many important respects, they improve much less than they should in such important areas as writing, critical thinking, quantitative skills, and moral  Read more...

Author(s): Bok, Derek
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 2007

Language: English
Pages: 440
City: Princeton
Tags: Academic achievement -- United States;Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States;Education

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Evolution of American Colleges
2 Faculty Attitudes toward Undergraduate Education
3 Purposes
4 Learning to Communicate
5 Learning to Think
6 Building Character
7 Preparation for Citizenship
8 Living with Diversity
9 Preparing for a Global Society
10 Acquiring Broader Interests
11 Preparing for a Career
12 Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education
Afterword to the Paperback Edition
Notes
Index.