Creating a New Admission Standard

Abstract

Scholars throughout the history of American higher education have asked the following three questions: “What is the purpose of postsecondary education? Who should attend college? What should the curriculum look like?”¹ The value in examining these questions concerning purpose, access, and curriculum in higher education comes from understanding that they have been answered differently throughout history and rightly so. Answers have fluctuated in response to both the desires and needs of college students in America within ever-changing national and global contexts.