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How College Works

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How College Works

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A Chronicle of Higher Education "Top 10 Books on Teaching" Selection Winner of the Virginia and Warren Stone Prize 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. "The book shares the narrative of the student experience, what happens to students as they move through their educations, all the way from arrival to graduation. This is an important distinction. [Chambliss and Takacs] do not try to measure what students have learned, but what it is like to live through college, and what those experiences mean both during the time at school, as well as going forward." -John Warner, Inside Higher Ed

Author Biography:

Daniel F. Chambliss is Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hamilton College. Christopher G. Takacs is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Chicago.
Release date Australia
February 17th, 2014
Audiences
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations
1 line illustration
Pages
224
Dimensions
160x236x25
ISBN-13
9780674049024
Product ID
21365701

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