College What It Was, Is, and Should Be

Published: Sept. 1, 2021, 4:01 p.m.

b'Modern students are apt to see going to\\xa0college\\xa0as the way to earn a credential that will help them get a good job. But as Andrew Delbanco, Professor of American\\xa0Studies at Columbia University, argues in his book\\xa0College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be, higher education was developed for a different purpose \\u2014 one it should fight to maintain.'