College: The Undergraduate Experience in America

By Ernest L. Boyer

Book Overview

Sponsored by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Boyer considers the undergraduate experience in American higher education, paying particular attention to the way institutional structures and procedures affect the lives of students. He not only identifies the strengths and problems, but also suggests ways in which colleges and universities might be improved and students better served.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060914580
• ISBN13: 9780060914585
• Release Date: November 1987
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Practical in Approach

This book sheds a fresh light on the role of relationships in the college community. Only a qualitative approach can address concerns of this nature. Boyer explains the depth of the professor's role is much more than that of imparting information to students. The one who succeeds in such a role is aware of a much broader set of standards. A professor provides the human touch to the learning process. He or she sets a tone in the daily conduct of affairs. There is some role modeling that takes place. Care and enthusiasm can be detected. Students pick up on people who are authentic. A professor who has a passion for the subject and the students possesses a certain intangible element. Boyer makes college level teaching sound exciting again! His explains help to build a fire of passion in the hearts of those who are in education for the right motive.

Essential for the researcher of student life!

I just used Boyer's work for a paper on campus community, and I found that he is the only researcher to suggest valid and possible ways to facilitate an on-campus community. A definite for the bookshelf!