Shameful Admissions: The Losing Battle to Serve Everyone in Our Universities

by Angela Brownemiller

Looks beyond the affirmative action debate to map out a radical revision of higher education that transforms the present system. Describes the inner workings, stresses, and strains of higher education... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787901822
• ISBN13: 9780787901820
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

For every admissions professional

As an admissions professional, this is one of the best books to start with regarding the struggle with promoting diversity on college campuses. The case study of UC-B shows how intricate the issue is and how much it permeates other issues on campuses--retention, student services, alumni giving, etc. Its a fairly easy read and one I recommend to all colleagues. Add this one to your shelf!

WHERE DOES DEMOCRACY AND HIGHER EDUCATION GO FROM HERE?

This amusingly misunderstood book (and major record of our times) pretty much says it all. People are so stuck in their ways of analyzing social problems and politics that they can't see the forest through the trees - or the truth through their delusions. It seems that many readers place the blindingly colored glasses of their personal biases and expectations over their eyes before reading. Tell these readers that this is not a book of the left or the right. It is most likely closest in foundation to libertarian underpinnings. This is not a book favoring the SF (California) Bay Area view that it is the center of the world. This is a book revealing the mess that higher education has stumbled into and is now blaming on funding, affirmative action, and so on. Bureaucracy is the problem, not social policy, the author writes. Experiments in education are wonderful, but these experiments become fixtures - expensive institutions that do not change well when times change - like universities. How expensive such a poor use of brainpower and taxpayer money and student time these experiments are becoming! This book proposes we look for the truth about supposedly democratic higher education and dig for reality regarding the cancerous bureacracies growing out of colleges and taking them over. Bureacracies do nothing for social programs such as admissions but stifle their value and waste their funding. The individual stories in this book are enough to make the read worth it. Keep the book - it will feel like a scrapbook of this era only a few decades from now. The author's true-to-the-truth weaving line of assessment of the wandering history of admissions policy demonstrates that the messy implementations of great social experiments are enough to make disbelievers out of even their own inventors.