Inside the Top Colleges: Realities of Life and Learning in America's Elite Colleges (Greene's Guides to Educational Planning) - Softcover

Greene, Howard; Greene, Matthew

9780060929947: Inside the Top Colleges: Realities of Life and Learning in America's Elite Colleges (Greene's Guides to Educational Planning)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060929944 ISBN 13: 9780060929947

Publisher: Cliff Street Books, 2000

Using focus groups, interviews with students, extensive polling, and an innovative survey, the author explores often ignored issues in higher education at twenty of America's most selective universities, such as cost, campus safety, eating disorders, political activism, drugs and alcohol, racism, and diversity. Reprint.

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From the Author:

THE SELECT brings the voice of students to the public.
The purpose of including statistical data from over 4,000 students is to let the interested student and parent compare the different colleges and to understand the nature of life on elite college campuses today. One can read the study without having to review the charts. The student quotes are very powerful in themselves. I am disappointed with the Kirkus Reviewer who failed to focus on the message of the book, not understanding that this involved a project lends credence to what it is like for the large majority of today's students on competitive college campuses. Did he or she really read the text?

Synopsis:

Covers personal safety, alcohol and drug abuse, academic workloads, competition with peers, costs, and financial stress.

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