On higher education the academic enterprise in an era of rising student consumerism /

Main Author: Riesman, David, 1909-2002.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 1980.
Physical Description: xxxiv, 421 pages ; 24 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Carnegie Council series.
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Online Access: Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • The era of faculty dominance and its decline
  • Sources of faculty hegemony
  • The rise of student disaffection
  • College marketing and student customers
  • The limits of student choice: the evangelical colleges
  • Student power in the public community colleges
  • The free market, "marginal differentiation," and restrictions on diversity
  • Providing information to guide student choice
  • Student consumerism and educational change
  • Protecting students by voluntary action: regional accrediting associations
  • Government intervention for consumer protection.