Volume 52, Number 17 · November 3, 2005
The Truth About the Colleges
By Andrew Hacker
Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class
by Ross Gregory Douthat
Hyperion, 288 pp., $24.95
I'm the Teacher, You're the Student: A Semester in the University Classroom
by Patrick Allitt
University of Pennsylvania Press, 244 pp., $19.95 (paper)
What the Best College Teachers Do
by Ken Bain
Harvard University Press, 207 pp., $21.95
University, Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of American Higher Education
by Jennifer Washburn
Basic Books, 326 pp., $26.00
The Best 357 Colleges: 2005 Edition
by the Princeton Review
Random House, 802 pp., $21.95 (paper)
Profiles of American Colleges: 2005
Barron's Educational Series, 1,669 pp., $26.95 (paper)
Higher education in America is no longer the preserve of a privileged elite, with more than seven million undergraduates now enrolled in the roughly 2,600 colleges and universities that grant bachelor or higher degrees. In 2002, the most recent year for which figures are available, 1,291,900 students received bachelors' diplomas and 606,958 completed graduate programs. The latter figure is worth noting, since it tells us that almost half of those who are completing college believe that a single degree won't suffice for what they want to do or be.
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