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- Title
What's Happening in Our Colleges: Thoughts on the New Meritocracy.
- Authors
DELBANCO, ANDREW H.
- Abstract
The article presents a November 12, 2010 speech by scholar Andrew H. Delbanco regarding the notion of meritocracy in admissions to elite U.S. colleges and universities. Topics include the 1957 book "The Rise of the Meritocracy," by Michael Young, the role of competitiveness in U.S. higher education, and the Protestant roots of elite U.S. universities.
- Subjects
UNITED States; DELBANCO, Andrew H.; MERITOCRACY; ELITE (Social sciences); HIGHER education; PROTESTANTISM -- Social aspects; RISE of the Meritocracy 1870-2033: An Essay on Education &; Equality, The (Book); YOUNG, Michael
- Publication
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 2012, Vol 156, Issue 3, p303
- ISSN
0003-049X
- Publication type
Speech