What’s the Point of College?: Seeking Purpose in an Age of Reform Audiobook (Free)

In What’s the Point of University?, historian Johann N. Neem offers a new way to take into account the major queries facing higher education today, from online education to disruptive technology to how college students really find out. As commentators, reformers, and policymakers call for dramatic transformation and new educational versions, this collection of lucid essays asks us to pause and consider stock. What is a college education said to be? What kinds of establishments and practices will greatest help us get there? And about What’s the idea of College?: Searching for Purpose in a day and time of Reform which virtues must universites and colleges cultivate to maintain their desired ends?

During this time of drift, Neem argues, we need to moor our colleges once again to their core purposes. By evaluating reformers’ goals with regards to the specific items that a university should present to college students and society, What’s the Point of University? connects public policy to deeper ethical questions. Exploring how exactly we can ensure that America’s colleges remain places for intellectual inquiry and reflection, Neem will not just provide answers to the big queries surrounding higher education-he offers listeners helpful information for how to consider them.