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Selling Hope and College : Merit, Markets, and Recruitment in an Unranked School.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (238 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501708404
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Selling Hope and CollegeDDC classification:
  • 378.16109729999999
LOC classification:
  • LB2351.2
Online resources:
Contents:
Selling Hope and College -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: An Uncertain Beginning -- 1. Extraordinary Mediocrity -- 2. How to Sell Hope and Mobility -- 3. It's All about the Numbers -- 4. Being a "Real" College in America -- 5. Financing Education and the Crisis of Sustainability -- Conclusion: Whither Ravenwood College? -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Summary: 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 them.
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Selling Hope and College -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: An Uncertain Beginning -- 1. Extraordinary Mediocrity -- 2. How to Sell Hope and Mobility -- 3. It's All about the Numbers -- 4. Being a "Real" College in America -- 5. Financing Education and the Crisis of Sustainability -- Conclusion: Whither Ravenwood College? -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

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 them.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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