Selling Hope and College: Merit, Markets, and Recruitment in an Unranked School
- ISBN-10
- 1501707582
- ISBN-13
- 9781501707582
- Category
- Universities and colleges
- Pages
- 213
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- ILR Press
- Author
- Alexander Posecznick
Description
Posecznick documents what it takes to keep a "mediocre" college open and running, and the struggles, tensions, and battles that members of the community tangle with daily as they carefully walk the line between empowering marginalized students and exploiting...
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- 2017-04-25
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