9781412853606-1412853605-The Qualified Student

The Qualified Student

ISBN-13: 9781412853606
ISBN-10: 1412853605
Edition: 1
Author: Harold S. Wechsler
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Paperback 422 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781412853606
ISBN-10: 1412853605
Edition: 1
Author: Harold S. Wechsler
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Paperback 422 pages

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The Qualified Student (ISBN-13: 9781412853606 and ISBN-10: 1412853605), written by authors Harold S. Wechsler, was published by Routledge in 2014. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other Higher & Continuing Education books. You can easily purchase or rent The Qualified Student (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Higher & Continuing Education books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $3.41.

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In The Qualified StudentHarold S. Wechsler focuses on methods of student selection used by institutions of higher education in the United States. More specifically, he discusses the way that college and university reformers employed those methods to introduce higher education into a broader cross-section of America, by extending access to an increased number of students from nontraditional backgrounds.

Implicit in much of this book is an underlying social and ethical question: How legitimate was and is higher education’s regulation of social mobility? Public concern over colleges’ and universities’ practices became inevitable once they became regulators between social classes. The challenging of colleges’ admissions policies in the courts augments similar concerns that have been present in legislatures for decades.

The volume is divided into three main sections: Prerequisites, Columbia and the Selective Function, and Implications. It focuses mainly on four universities, The University of Michigan, Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and the City University of New York. Wechsler maintains that unlike other universities, these institutions were pacesetters; they did not adopt a new policy simply because some other college had already adopted it. A new introduction brings the book, originally published in 1977, up to date and demonstrates its continuing importance in today’s academic world of selective admissions.

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