Selling Hope and College: Merit, Markets, and Recruitment in an Unranked School
ISBN: 9781501708404
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Universities and colleges -- United States -- Admission; Universities and colleges -- United States -- Administration;

Posecznick documents what it takes to keep a "mediocre" college 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.


An anthropologist by training, Alex Posecznick manages the programs in Education, Culture, and Society, and International Education Development at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education, where he also serves as a member of the Associated Faculty.

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