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UNINA9910465777203321 |
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Posecznick Alexander |
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Selling hope and college : merit, markets, and recruitment in an unranked schoo / / Alex Posecznick |
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Ithaca, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : ILR Press, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations |
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Universities and colleges - United States - Admission |
Universities and colleges - United States - Administration |
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Previously issued in print: 2017. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Extraordinary Mediocrity -- 2. How to Sell Hope and Mobility -- 3. It's All about the Numbers -- 4. Being a "Real" College in America -- 5. Financing Education and the Crisis of Sustainability -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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It has long been assumed that college admission should be a simple matter of sorting students according to merit, with the best heading off to the Ivy League and highly ranked liberal arts colleges and the rest falling naturally into their rightful places. Admission to selective institutions, where extremely fine distinctions are made, is characterized by heated public debates about whether standardized exams, high school transcripts, essays, recommendation letters, or interviews best indicate which prospective students are "worthy."And then there is college for everyone else. But what goes into less-selective college admissions in an era when everyone feels compelled to go, regardless of preparation or life goals? "Ravenwood College," where Alex Posecznick spent a year doing ethnographic research, was a small, private, nonprofit institution dedicated to social justice and serving traditionally underprepared students from underrepresented minority groups. To survive in the higher education marketplace, the |
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college had to operate like a business and negotiate complex categories of merit while painting a hopeful picture of the future for its applicants. Selling Hope and College is a snapshot of a particular type of institution as it goes about the business of producing itself and justifying its place in the market. Admissions staff members were burdened by low enrollments and worked tirelessly to fill empty seats, even as they held on to the institution's special spirit. Posecznick documents what it takes to keep a "mediocre" institution open and running, and the struggles, tensions, and battles that members of the community tangle with daily as they carefully walk the line between empowering marginalized students and exploiting them. |
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UNINA9910462790503321 |
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Neue Sachlichkeit and Avant-Garde [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Ralf Grüttemeier, Klaus Beekman and Ben Rebel |
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Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2013 |
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1 online resource (372 p.) |
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Avant-Garde critical studies ; ; 29 |
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GrüttemeierRalf |
BeekmanKlaus |
RebelBen |
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Neue Sachlichkeit (Art) |
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) |
Electronic books. |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Preliminary material / Editors Neue Sachlichkeit and Avant-Garde -- Neue Sachlichkeit and Avant-Garde. An Introduction / Ralf Grüttemeier , Klaus Beekman and Ben Rebel -- Challenging the Autonomous Realm of Literature: Nieuwe Zakelijkheid and Poetry in the Dutch Literary Field / Gillis J. Dorleijn -- “Yesterday Art Today Reality”. The Discourse on Neue Sachlichkeit in i 10 / Kees van Wijk -- Rietveld and Nieuwe |
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Zakelijkheid in Architecture / Marieke Kuipers -- Nieuwe Zakelijkheid as Positioning Strategy: The Case of Albert Helman / Mathijs Sanders -- The Appearance and Disappearance of the Term Nieuwe Zakelijkheid in Dutch Modern Architecture / Ben Rebel -- The Terms Nieuwe Zakelijkheid, Neue Sachlichkeit and Nieuw Realisme in Art Criticism of the Dutch paper De Groene Amsterdammer / Klaus Beekman -- Neue Sachlichkeit, Mass Media and Matters of Musical Style in the 1920's / Nils Grosch -- “A book such as ‘Automobile’ is only written once in a lifetime”. Ilja Ehrenburg’s The life of the automobile as benchmark in the discussion of New Objectivity in Dutch literature / Hans Anten -- The Function of Ilja Ehrenburg Concerning the Dutch Prose of the Nieuwe Zakelijkheid / Ralf Grüttemeier -- Continuity Through ‘Inner Emigration’: Neue Sachlichkeit, National Socialism, and Aspects of the Work of Otto Dix 1933-1935 / Steve Plumb -- Concepts of the Subject in the Avant-Garde Movements of the 1910's and Neue Sachlichkeit / Sabine Kyora -- The Reception of Neue Sachlichkeit among Dutch Authors and Critics / Jaap Goedegebuure -- Objectivity and Emotion, the Challenge of the Nieuwe Zakelijkheid: Albert Kuyle As a Test Case / Lut Missinne -- New Objectivity in the Work of the Russian-German Artist Nikolai Zagrekov/Nikolaus Sagrekow / Rainer Grübel -- Aleksei Gan’s Constructivism and its Aftermath / Willem G. Weststeijn. |
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One of the aims of the book is to shed more light on the notion Neue Sachlichkeit in its appearance in a variety of fields as painting, architecture, music, photography and literature, in order to get a clearer idea of its scope. Several contributions will do so by analysing the heterogeneity in the use of the term concerning its function in the fight for recognition in the art-fields around 1930 - in other words, Neue Sachlichkeit will be analysed as a positioning strategy. Especially its participation in the broader discourse on modernity, as well as its international and intermedial dimension will be highlighted, often using the historical avant-garde as point of reference. From this perspective, the present volume wants to be read as a plea for a differentiated description of the many shared aspects and some differences between the avant-garde and Neue Sachlichkeit . |
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UNISA996383816903316 |
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A discourse made by the Ld Bishop of Rochester to the clergy of his diocese [[electronic resource] ] : at his visitation in the year 1695 : published at their request |
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In the Savoy [London], : Printed by Edw. Jones, MDCXCVI [1696] |
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Pastoral theology - Anglican Communion |
Visitation sermons |
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Half-title page reads: The Ld Bishop of Rochester's discourse to his clergy, &c. |
Reproduction of original in the Union Theological Seminary Library, New York. |
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