Reviews for Campus life

The average rating for Campus life based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-04-01 00:00:00 Cornelius Cook It was fine but I definitely would have preferred to read something, I don't know, not published before I was born regarding the history of higher education. As a reader, you can draw clear connections between the undergraduates of yesteryear and those of today which is practical for a Higher Education program. It would have been a slightly more engaging and equitable read had it not seemed primarily focused on the white narrative.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-03-22 00:00:00 Jonathan Dorval This is a charming and ambitious book. The author has assembled a two hundred and eighty year history of the student view of college through the examination of collegiate novels and memoirs of people who have written about their college days. The portrait of the mix of students that have existed in some form for almost all of that time - the insiders oblivious to learning, the outsiders hitting the books, and the rebels trying to define themselves intellectually and sociology over their college years - is enlightening. The assemblage of books used to paint this story - while certainly not exhausting; I thought of autobiographies she missed as I read this book - is interesting, a mix of the famous and semi-famous. Horowitz notes that the rise in serious study in college life of the late 19th/early 18th centuries came about because the new workplace demanded that people have a new knowledge base. The level of seriousness rose again with the post WWII years and the inclusion of older military veterans in the student mix. She rightly identifies the transition of the outsiders from the poor students of old who viewed professors as mentors to today's generally well-healed group who have more of an antagonistic relationship with the professorate. Sprinkled throughout this book is a wonderful assemblage of photos of students through the ages culled from university archives across the country. This book isn't designed to be read widely. But for academics and students who want to know what student life was about way back when, this is a fun read free of political correctness.