ERIC Number: EJ623466
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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Putting on the Glitz: How Tales from a Few Elite Institutions Form America's Impressions about Higher Education.
Adelman, Clifford
Connection: New England's Journal of Higher Education and Economic Development, v15 n3 p24-30 Win 2001
Describes how what happens in the most elite institutions of higher education in the United States creates the body of knowledge and attitudes by which most colleges are judged. Among the issues for which this phenomenon is apparent are those of grade inflation, graduation rates, and core curricula. (SLD)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Core Curriculum, Grade Inflation, Graduation, Higher Education, Public Opinion, Selective Colleges
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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