College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be by Andrew Delbanco My rating: 4 of 5 stars Andrew Delbanco opens this book describing a faculty meeting early in his tenure at Columbia where the end of “needs blind” admissions was being debated. He described this debate as the beginning of a journey of thinking about not only his chosen discipline but the whys and wherefores of the university, of which this book is a product. The book follows the schema of the title. He looks at the origins of colleges in this … [Read more...] about Book Review: College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be