by Shirley R. Steinberg (Other), Joseph L. DeVitis (Editor), Pietro A. Sasso (Editor)

Focusing on crucial issues in higher education, Colleges at the Crossroads: Taking Sides on Contested Issues challenges readers to go beyond taken-for-granted assumptions about America's colleges and universities and instead critically examine important questions facing them in today's troubled world.

Author Biography

Joseph L. DeVitis is a prolific scholar and public intellectual in social foundations of education and higher education. Two of his books have earned Choice Awards from the American Library Association and four others have won Critics Choice Awards from the American Educational Studies Association.

Pietro A. Sasso is Assistant Professor of College Student Personnel at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Co-editor of Today's College Students and Higher Education and Society, his research focuses on identity construction of traditional undergraduate students and the lived experiences of college subcultures.