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College Composition and Communication, 2013-02, Vol.64 (3), p.550-553
Ort / Verlag
Urbana: National Council of Teachers of English
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
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Literature Online (LION)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
(153) Describing the other pressures-declining endowments, insufficiency of financial aid, oversimplified evaluation and testing procedures-that have been brought to bear on both elite and not-so-elite colleges, Delbanco argues (and does so throughout the book) that his ideal of college-as a space "where young people fight out among and within themselves contending ideas of the meaningful life"-is threatened and that "[w]e owe it to posterity to preserve and protect this institution" because "Democracy depends on it" (177). If an author can get a substantial number of readers to believe, based on what His Neighbor the CEO said one day, that college professors are no longer expecting anything of their students, I can certainly try to counter that by finding a way to tell interested parties my own story: one (at the teaching level) of all the papers I grade and all the individual attention I give to my students, and (at the administrative level) all the class sizes I try and often succeed to keep low, all the writing portfolios (with lots of writing in them!) that we gather and assess.