‘What Is College For?,’ Chapter 6: Graduate School as Higher Education’s Nerve Center

By Vincent DeFrancesco. Chapter 6 of What Is College For? was a bit of a departure from the book’s central theme. The previous chapters focused on the lost public purposes of higher education and ways to revive the teaching of those purposes. This chapter’s author, Catharine Stimpson, dean emerita of New York University’s Graduate School of Arts and Science, touches on the book’s theme very briefly. More...