Closed Minds and College Life: Understanding the Campus Culture of the 1980s.

Zuker, R. Fred

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Publication Date: 1989

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Closed Minds and College Life: Understanding the Campus Culture of the 1980s.

Zuker, R. Fred

Journal of College Admissions, n120 p6-10 Sum 1989

Explores college campus, past and present, as related in five recent and highly publicized books on college students and their environment: "College Life" (Helen Horowitz); "The Closing of the American Mind" (Alan Bloom); "College: The Undergraduate Experience in America" (Ernest Boyer); "What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know" (Diane Ravitch and Chester Finn); and "Cultural Literacy" (E. D. Hirsch). (NB)

Descriptors: Book Reviews, College Environment, College Students, Educational Environment, Higher Education

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Language: English

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