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How College Works (Hardcover)
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How College Works (Hardcover)
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Constrained by shrinking budgets, can colleges do more to improve
the quality of education? And can students get more out of college
without paying higher tuition? Daniel Chambliss and Christopher
Takacs conclude that the limited resources of colleges and students
need not diminish the undergraduate experience. How College Works
reveals the surprisingly decisive role that personal relationships
play in determining a student's collegiate success, and puts
forward a set of small, inexpensive interventions that yield
substantial improvements in educational outcomes. At a liberal arts
college in New York, the authors followed a cluster of nearly one
hundred students over a span of eight years. The curricular and
technological innovations beloved by administrators mattered much
less than the professors and peers whom students met, especially
early on. At every turning point in students' undergraduate lives,
it was the people, not the programs, that proved critical. Great
teachers were more important than the topics studied, and even a
small number of good friendships--two or three--made a significant
difference academically as well as socially. For most students,
college works best when it provides the daily motivation to learn,
not just access to information. Improving higher education means
focusing on the quality of a student's relationships with mentors
and classmates, for when students form the right bonds, they make
the most of their education.
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