دورية أكاديمية
The Strange Game of Prestige Scholarships
العنوان: | The Strange Game of Prestige Scholarships |
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اللغة: | English |
المؤلفون: | Knox, John A. |
المصدر: | Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council. Spr-Sum 2017 18(1):11-17. |
الإتاحة: | National Collegiate Honors Council. 1100 Neihardt Residence Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 540 North 16th Street, Lincoln, NE 68588. Tel: 402-472-9150; Fax: 402-472-9152; e-mail: nchc@unl.edu; Web site: http://nchchonors.org |
Peer Reviewed: | Y |
Page Count: | 8 |
تاريخ النشر: | 2017 |
نوع الوثيقة: | Journal Articles Reports - Descriptive Opinion Papers |
Education Level: | Higher Education |
Descriptors: | Scholarships, Honors Curriculum, Reputation, College Students, Educational History, Student Educational Objectives, Educational Practices |
تدمد: | 1559-0151 |
مستخلص: | Honors programs, as home to the highest test scores and highest GPAs on many campuses (for reasons that are not particularly justifiable), can become assembly lines for prestige-scholarship applications and their dangling appendages, the applicants themselves. As honors programs become cogs in universities' PR machines, they decouple from their deeper and more important missions. In this article, the author discusses some disquieting conclusions he has reached about prestige scholarships through his own experiences as a candidate, as an advisor to multiple nominees, via personal and family knowledge of nearly twenty Rhodes Scholars ranging from the Class of 1910 to the Class of 2000, and during twenty years as a faculty member at two universities. |
Abstractor: | ERIC |
Number of References: | 9 |
Entry Date: | 2018 |
رقم الأكسشن: | EJ1172632 |
قاعدة البيانات: | ERIC |
تدمد: | 1559-0151 |
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